#precisely

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. ↗

— Eric Liu

#china #debate #gain #game #locked

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

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

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#came #cannot #family #i #idea

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#becoming #difficult #leader #precisely #simple

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#man #precisely #responsible

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#dominance #favor #germany #integration #precisely