Exactitudes Quotes

#1. China
Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese,
roads of magnetized air.
To go great distance,
exactitudes matter.
Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,
Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Heywood Hale Broun

#3. I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

Giuliana Sgrena

#4. The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

Horace

#5. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#6. When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

Salman Rushdie

#7. You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

#8. Kissing meant he had to touch. Touching meant he wanted to crush her under him. Getting her under him meant he had to be inside her, and when he got there the only thing that kept him from losing it and going all caveman on her was the knowledge that he'd scare her to death if he did.

Anne Calhoun

#9. Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Michelle Sagara West

#10. Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

James MacDonald

#11. Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Emily Bronte

#12. What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#13. Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

Maria Montessori

#14. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

DJ Quik

#15. Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl D. Anderson

#16. I'm not interested in Botox or getting a facelift. There comes a point where you have to let go and accept that you are no longer the youngest and that you have other things to offer.

Jade Jagger