Exact Quotes

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of remains we are not going to be able to ever determine the exact manner or cause of death. The coroner will classify both as undetermined.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

Hindsight is an exact science.

The exact cause of his death has not been established, but Dr Rupert has been struggling with his health over the past three or so years.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

It is known that the brain shrinks over the course of a person's life, although the exact trajectory is not well understood, and there are huge individual differences.

If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

If I were to use outdoor for Coke, I would do the exact opposite. I would run 19th century billboards. That would be startling.

Last year, I had a similar situation with the Falcons and the exact same thing happened at the end of the season when we needed two wins to clinch the division.

We really make an effort to sound exactly like the originals. The orchestra score is exact, right down to every note and instrument that was on the original recording. ... On 'A Day in the Life,' can you imagine that big orchestra crescendo happening live?

I wear pretty much the same clothes everyday. Just like those guys, I do the exact same thing every game day.

We are still trying to determine the exact motive. Although we have a suspect in custody, the investigation is still going on.

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?

I don't have the exact numbers of the vote in front of me right now. But it was more than 10 and might have been closer to 12 firefighters that signed on to the letter.

The weirdest thing was that we rehearsed in the exact same room we rehearsed in 34 years ago, ... When I went into the washroom and looked in the mirror, I thought, 'Who is this white-haired guy?'.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

The exact implementation or timing when something like that would happen has yet to be determined. Ultimately, the minister of finance has the final say on it.

The exact sequence of what's happening here is unique.

last chance to exact vengeance.

I see the same exact type of team. Great closer. Great starting pitching every night. Great core of hitters. Can score runs every night.

House Majority Leader Boehner is obviously setting the exact opposite tone that Speaker (Dennis) Hastert had set a few weeks earlier.