For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, ...
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hea...
Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in spo...
A brick could be used to locate the precise coordinates of the Masons. Just follow the bricks—and follow the money.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
