quotes about Exactness

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”

“Everything will be solar in 30 years.”

“Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.”

“Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.”

Source : James R. Schlesinger (1968). “Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis”

“Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over my arm. I snatched my arm back. “Ow.” Not body makeup.” She frowned and peered at the roots of my hair. “A good die-job or you’ve really got blue hair.” For now,” I said. “I’m half Drow.” She raised an eyebrow. Dark Elves.” Uh-huhhhh.” During the day I look normal, like you.” With an amused look she held up her arm, showing her dark, golden skin. “You’re Kenyan and Puerto Rican?”

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

“When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.”

“I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.”

“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.