Quotes of: Precision Keyword

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Flaubert's Parrot

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

Asylum

Efficient self-destruction is what it is. Clean and neat. Almost surgical in its precision.

Later That Night

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Lies: A novel

I heard God in the silence. I recognized his voice precisely because it was inaudible.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

Margaret Chan

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Penn Jillette

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

Paul Parker

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Peter De Vries

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

Stephen M. Walt

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

John White

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

Conrad Veidt

Love is the universe. Love is ageless, boundless, bodiless, boundary-less. Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.

Debasish Mridha

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Gregory Bateson

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

Mike Fitzpatrick

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Peter Kreeft