Quotes of Exacting - somelinesforyou

“ If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both. ”

- John Curtin

“ Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon… ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred — that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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