In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to fi...
We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed. Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or...
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.
Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!
Harold Crick: You keep your files like this? Ana Pascal: No, actually I'm quite fastidious. I put them in this box just to screw with you.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
