#precise

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do. ↗

— Wes Borland

#i #old #precisely #stuff #too

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempt #brought #catastrophes #course #felt

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#about #brought #circumstances #conditions #criteria

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #kiss #like #precisely #reader

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#god #love #love is #man #needs

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#certain #child #comes #company #father

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#capacity #develop #liberal #likely #linear

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#end #fact #fight #in fact #may