#precisely

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#everybody #fallible #fragments #how #join

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#bit #cannot #climb #end #followed

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#feet #hair #hated #hates #head

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#am #been #discover #fifty #i

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cut #happy #how #long #matter

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#beauty #certainly #interesting #makes #precisely

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#bonds #country #crisis #debt #dramatic

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him