Quotes of Precision - somelinesforyou

“ In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”

- Arthur Schnitzler

“ If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? ”

- Confucius

“ A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can. ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ I'd check that for accuracy because I think that's untrue. ”

- John Gould

“ Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ”

- Plutarch

“ Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ”

- John Fiske

“ Punctuality is the politeness of kings. ”

- Louis XVIII

“ There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication… Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. ”

- John Dewey

“ The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ”

- Unknown

“ To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ”

- Confucius

“ I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does. ”

- Unknown

“ Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility. ”

- G. C. Lichtenberg

“ If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. ”

- Howard Gardner

“ His accuracy, leadership skills and the way he manages a football game. ”

- Joe Theismann

“ I have been on a calendar, but never on time. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Fidelity is for phonographs. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? ”

- Henry Martyn

“ Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality. ”

- Malcolm Boyd

“ Fidelity is the sister of justice. ”

- Horace

“ Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly
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