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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

We don't have precise figures yet, but we expect the needs to increase a lot.

Paul Hebert

Both (Air Force and Navy service pilots) are safe, but the Navy and Marine guys are more precise.

Tom Walsh

The actions will be precise and resolute.

Alexei Miller

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman

We can't be precise yet on where these storms will hit but they will be strong.

Randy Lascody

There is a great deal of information floating around about the gasoline tax -- both accurate and inaccurate. This will give citizens and elected officials the opportunity to sift through the most precise information and move forward with the facts.

Marc Basnight

It is absolutely premature to discuss a precise number. We have not disclosed a precise number.

Christa Carone

I don't think those numbers are that precise. I'm glad we're in the top 100, but there may be one day we're not.

Richard Morgan

Normally, I get the head count when they're about 15 minutes out, ... It's hard to get an adequate and precise count.

Roger Allen

Such issues are precise technical details.

Javad Vaeedi

Frankly, it doesn't surprise me at all. It's just how she's built. She's precise in everything she does. The day before a game, no matter who we're playing, she sets out a plan and then executes it.

Michele Moore

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

Giuseppe Gattino

Until now we had no close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact.

Amit Sharma

A ballistic test that was the most precise available test was performed: the firing pin test. It showed the bullet could not have come from the gun. The FBI the concealed that test and just before the trial did a much less good test, which they presented to say the bullet did come from his gun.

Jennifer Harbury

Navy was a precise, military institution with students who wore uniforms and short hair. Maryland students were cut from a different cloth - many were beginning to grow long hair and had anti-government feelings.

Skip Orr

We went forward by two goals during the first period. At that moment, we should have been more precise and attentive in defending the result. On the contrary, the USA was able to score a couple goals and get the tie. We had to start again. And in the end, they were able again to come back. But fortunately, we won.

Ville Nieminen

This was never communicated to us as to the precise rules and regulations of the competition and to come at the end of the game naturally we expected overtime and penalties then we were told that the away goal rule counted.

Bradley Stewart

[Color, always an attraction in any Missoni collection, is here in abundance -- but more subdued.] Amber, gold, orange, kind of light olive-greens and yellow, but very mixed, ... They're never, never precise colors. Lots of mixture. Lots of soft interpretation.

Angela Missoni

We know that figure is seriously inaccurate. But we will not be able to provide a precise figure until our next filing in this case, which will be on March 6.

Cass Cliatt

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

Jacques Lipchitz

As for the precise detail of this proposal, we will have to look at it once Fifa have sent it through, but our existing disciplinary procedures do already allow for points deductions in certain extreme cases.

Piara Powar

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

James Boswell

We're not still confident with the ice and to be able to make that kind of precise shot making, I didn't expect that.

Glenn Howard

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton Powell

The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise location, indeed to give a wrong location.

Alan Fry

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling

You simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.

Bret Easton Ellis

[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.

Kate Adie

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier bresson

By keeping focus on the organizational, rather than the technological, elements of MDM, more intelligent business decisions, precise reporting, and enhanced operational efficiencies are possible. It starts with building consensus, managing change, and affirming the corporate commitment to managing data as an asset.

Faisal Shah

It is not great news for Barry or the Ospreys. At this stage it looks as if he will be out until the end of April, but until he has the consultation we can't be more precise.

Derwyn Jones

The boundary is so important because it is a precise marker in geologic time.

Kirk Johnson

He's very precise and a highly professional and serious person to work with. He knows exactly what he wants to say.

Neil Baldwin

Even though the data are not as precise as we would like, they do bring some fresh and important data to the table that hadn't existed before.

Dr. Ross Prentice

We will have the best clock ever flown in space. It will be as precise as one out of a million seconds every 24 hours.

Dominic Detain

That pyramid has been known for a number of years; but what has not been known is its precise date, and it may prove to be circa 600 A.D. or later, since some of the material seems to be filled from earlier levels.

David Frye

There's probably going to be more money coming to the industry, but it's difficult to put precise numbers on it right now.

Cai Von Rumohr

Your statutory powers to consider these matters are explicitly set forth in New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 through 25-2-19) poisonous & deleterious food adulteration is the province of the EIB; your powers in that regard are very precise.

James Turner

[Guidant] is in a situation where they have to be extremely forthcoming and precise in their communications. So I'm inclined to take them at their word.

Robert Faulkner

The corps has to almost breathe together. It's like when you see a flock of birds moving together and they're absolutely precise - it's beautiful, isn't it?

Victoria Morgan

We're extremely lucky to have him here. He's an amazingly talented player, and one of the most precise musicians I've ever dealt with. ... He improvises, but he doesn't make mistakes.

Doron Weber

We want precise land locations, where an animal was shot.

Aaron Lindemann

Look at that, it's precise. Some players sign and you can't even recognize it.

David Barlow

This article will tell you exactly where to go to catch halibut and what to use. Fishing & Hunting News has introduced anglers to thousands of the most productive fishing and hunting areas over the past 51 years and featured precise maps of the very best places to go.

Andy Martin

The prime minister has to make a little bit more of an effort to explain things, to be more precise and explain to us what he wants to talk about, with whom, and when.

Francois Chereque

The only precise estimate that can be made is that it will be between 6 rubles and 20,000 rubles. The sky is the limit as to how high the ruble can go.

Miranda Xafa

One will not deny me, I trust, all the theory of oxidation and combustion, the analysis and decomposition of air by metals and combustible bodies, the theory of acidification, more precise knowledge on the nature of a great numbers of acids, notably.

Antoine Lavoisier

There is no agreement on the compensation yet. We got notice at our meeting with the Bulgarian side of the precise demands of the families of the sick children. The families want to get 10 million euro each.

Salah Abdessalam

I take full responsibility for that. I regret that I didn't have attention to detail, and regret not double-checking and being as precise as I could be.

Donnie Marbut

We'll be building up to being a lot faster and a lot more precise with our passing in our approach. You can expect some longer rallies coming from us.

Cathy Alexander

Most earlier estimates of neutron-star speeds depended on educated guesses about their distances. With this one, we have a precise, direct measurement of the distance, so we can measure the speed directly.

Walter Brisken

Kristen (Lilly) tried to be too precise with her passing early, but she settled in and demonstrated why she's one of the best defensive players in the NAIA.

Paul Elliott

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Jean Stafford

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Rita Dove

And we want to solve this in a more precise way where we don't end up destroying the city.

Christopher Hickey

When a team is that athletic, you need to be precise and accurate on offense. We did a good job, but we just missed too many open shots.

Marty Sewell

None of our game is power. Robbie manages his game very well. [Sophomore] Bret [Perry] is very precise. We should do better on a shorter course.

Matt Baughan

It's been fun to catch. He's just gotten so much better, more precise with all his pitches. Everything he throws is pretty dirty.

Jonathan Johnson

And I think the lack of precise measurement adds to that.

Rich Levin

What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. They don't panic.

Wendell Byrd

Adverse outcomes are rare, so we have to be able to study large groups of cancer survivors in order to develop precise estimates of risk.

John Boice

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Humberto Moreira

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world --- more precise than science.

David Whyte

The virus can change its face, but what we can see with this complicated structure is the precise mechanisms -- the way it puts on its disguises.

Peter Kwong

I thought he was thinking too much, trying to be too precise and just couldn't get it going.

Chris Maloney

You can look at those last two drives, but it comes down to ... penalties, dropped balls and bad throws, ... We were not very precise today as an offense.

Matt Baker

The precise impact cannot be specified yet. It all depends on how the company positions itself for the time after its rights expire.

Christian Schindler

An adversary that continues to develop some sophistication on very deadly and increasingly precise standoff weapons.

Lawrence Dirita

It?s a very precise and accurate tool. It allows us the optimum placement of the new knee.

William Manning

The numbers are the numbers, ... and they are a very precise measurement of a very vague concept.

Michael Swanson

He had paranoid delusions. But I have no doubt that Father Chevedden was accurate in what he described. He was very precise in detailing and documenting what transpired.

George Maloof

Personally, my best memory is the precise moment between the takeoff and the landing, ... It's 20 days of beautiful moments.

Bertrand Piccard

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

Stanley Elkin

They have a big-time player in Alex Munday. She is precise and efficient. We are going to have our hands full.

Andy Blackston

Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.

Mary Russell Mitford

I never had any idea that [the article] was going to be so precise.

Gordon Moore

What we've been missing is a starting point. These samples allow precise measurements of the abundance of elements and isotopes in the sun.

Don Burnett

The governor is pleased with the Pojoaque settlement. But he's asked for a study of the Hobbs racetrack. He's looking for more precise information on the economic impact.

Billy Sparks

I love it. I've got to be precise at it. It comes down to the coaches trusting you and knowing plays. When my name is called, I have to know what to do. That's what they want to see.

Anthony Campbell

I'm one of the people who, from the beginning, said that it's not bad that we will be counting the difficulty skills. This system also gives extremely big importance to the precise execution.

Martha Karolyi

Dr. Lee wanted to be a 100 percent certain that nothing could change. It was 99.9 percent, but she wanted to make sure about that other 0.1 percent. I don't blame her for that. She just wanted to be precise.

Tony Rasmus

We may be making clocks that are more precise than time itself can be defined on Earth.

Daniel Kleppner

We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.

Neil Craig

We've got a very precise idea of how far we can go and what we can budge on.

Jim Buessing

Knowing more about the process and about the precise areas of the brain that are affected will give us options for exploring future therapies.

Rudolf Jaenisch

There's a new attitude up here. We see that there is a clear and precise direction that the administration wants to go. Things are upbeat and that feeling is contagious. Just like in the past when the negative behavior was here, that was contagious. We don't have to live up to the negative perceptions that were here before.

Rollins Stallworth

We don't yet know the precise motive. There was a significant amount of explosives placed in the car but we don't yet know how it detonated.

Joergen Bro

He's very calculated, very precise.

Mark paul Gosselaar

That balance and that ability to be so precise is something that can't be taught. He was born to do this, plain and simple.

Eric Koston

If they are using more precise aircraft, there is a ground for us to be extra worried. We are waiting for them. We are not going let them overrun us.

Ernest Wamba

He's such a hard worker. He's very precise in how he does his planning. His physical conditioning is probably the best that I have on my team.

Erik Petersen

We've never seen this precise combination of factors.

Ed Link

It will feel like a stage - it will be very precise lighting.

Earl Santee