#precisely

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#am #been #discover #fifty #i

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cut #happy #how #long #matter

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#case #choices #especially #heart #individuals

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#certain #child #comes #company #father

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#capacity #develop #liberal #likely #linear

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#end #fact #fight #in fact #may

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

#assassination #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #dr

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bottom #design #evil #expect #good