#precise

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#deep #efforts #list #long #long list

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#barely #bringing #case #countries #engaged

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

#activist #allows #back #because #consider

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. ↗

— James Dickey

#precise #reckless #wished

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fixed #i #maintained #means #now

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#boredom #drives #either #get #host

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#life #marriage #meant #more #perhaps

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#budget #chirac #contrary #demanded #european

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#breath #capture #converge #faculties #fleeting