Quotes of: Exacting Keyword

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

Paula Poundstone

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Thomas Jefferson

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Ben Stein

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Alfred Rosenberg

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

Leonard Maltin

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Gabriel Marcel

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Hunter

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

Virginia Woolf

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politic...

Books v. Cigarettes

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

The Instructions

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

Jon Crosby

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Stieg Larsson

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Skeet Ulrich

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

Karl G. Maeser

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Walter Scott

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

Saint Ambrose

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Seth Lloyd

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

Maurice Wilkins