E Quotes
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“Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.”
“Exactly," he answers again, with that patronizing smile. Watson's approach to science contains such a vital flaw it nearly takes my breath away. How can one call oneself a scientist and begin one's investigation with a conclusion instead of building to one only after exhaustive research?”
Source: Her Hidden Genius
“Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”
“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.”
Source: This Is What Happy Looks Like
“Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered”
“Exactly. If there’s something that conquers fear, it’s God’s love for you. Your Bible makes it clear.”
Source: Portal
“Exactly," Jesus interrupted. "You imagine. Such a powerful ability, the imagination! That power alone makes you so like us. But without wisdom, imagination is a cruel task-master.”
Source: The Shack
“Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.”
“Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible places, into respectable drawing rooms and attics and into the midst of chattering, guzzling, yawning and sleeping listeners, and exactly as it strips this music of its sensuous beauty, spoils and scratches and slimes it and yet cannot altogether destroy its spirit, just so does life, the so-called reality, deal with the sublime picture-play of the world and make a hurley-burley of it. It makes its unappetizing tone-slime of the most magic orchestral music. Everywhere it obtrudes its mechanism, its activity, its dreary exigencies and vanity between the ideal and the real, between orchestra and ear. All life is so, my child, and we must let it be so: and, if we are not asses, laugh at it. It little becomes people like you to be critics of radio or of life either. Better learn to listen first! Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
“Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.”
“Exactly!” shouted Sarin the crab, now standing on hind legs. The looks of fear had subsided from the faces of the creatures. “We have a right to be happy, and live well my friends. That’s why I’m telling you all to eat to your heart’s content!”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.”
“Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.”
Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Exactly. There's nothing wrong with him. But he doesn't have like, any wow or thrill factor.
You are choosing a husband. Not taking an amusement park ride for thrills.”
Source: One Indian Girl
“Exactly this type of people like you, at the beginning you're gonna be shy but later on you're gonna jump on a chair and you will scream hit him!”
“Exactly. Though I consider myself adequately knowledgeable, I'm no doctor. Humans aren't my specialty.”
Source: Breed: Prophecy Reawakened
“Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.”
Source: Antidepressants
“Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?”
“Exactly what it sounded like, Munchkin. You want to live here in a Sentinel compound then you’re going to act like a Sentinel. You’re going to train and do your duties without bitching. Since you’re mated that also means that you’ll keep house for me, cook, doctor my wounds and spread your legs when I have excess energy.”
Source: Without Regret
“Exactly what occurred that day can never be known, only the results. Of the soldiers, not a single man or woman returned to give any account. The seals were placed safely...”
Source: The Strike at Shayol Ghul
“Exactly what office was held by the important personage and what this entailed remains a mystery to this day. All that we can say is that the important personage had only recently been made an important personage, and prior to that had been an unimportant personage.”
Source: Plays and Petersburg Tales
“Exactly what part of that is supposed to make me feel better?" Though, honestly, hearing that she was jealous of me did make me feel a teeny, tiny bit better.”
Source: My Soul to Steal
“Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.”
“Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.”
Source: Valis
“Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.”
“Exactly when was America great? I am only asking to understand the exact time frame we are going back to for a heard-up and better perspective and preparedness.”
“Exactly when will you give up?
When things will seem out of your hands ?
When situations will seem out of your control?
Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?
Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?
Don't tell me that I gave up; I didn't.
Because I didn't let go; I just let it be.”
“Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?”
“Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.”
“Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.”
“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
“Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.”
“Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that some things are important enough to fight for and realize there will be sacrifices along the way.”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”
“Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
“Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.”
“Exaggerate the essential.
Sometimes the art of existence depends on how you exaggerate the essential.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.”
“Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.”
“Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.”
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”
Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America
“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”
“exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.”
Source: Different Hours: Poems
“Exaggerating Your Gestures
“Have you ever walked through a door and been jumped on by an over-enthusiastic dog with big paws who practically knocked you down? Some people have that effect. Being too flamboyant and over-boisterous can be overkill and push people away. Drama queens and kings have mastered these exaggerations, much to the chagrin of their observers. Remaining intentional in your gestures is a mark of poise, elegance, and maturity.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the time. They're very good at it." For a moment Silk looked outraged at the thought, and then he suddenly laughed. "Somehow that restores my faith in the order of the universe," he declared. Wolf looked pained. "Silk," he said pointedly, "you're a very evil man. Did you know that?" "One does one's best," Silk replied mockingly.”
“Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.”