Exacting Quotations

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

NATO's air campaign in succeeding in weakening (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic 's repressive capability, and we are exacting a heavy price for his ethnic cleansing activity, ... NATO's resolution remains unshakable.

I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during the course of 2006. In many ways, these chips are harnessed in the Unix systems that are the workhorses of the enterprise infrastructure, where they are running massively large workloads with exacting availability requirements.

Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both.

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

I suppose you can try to punt the ball out of bounds, but that's risky business, too. It's going to take a real team effort to try and contain (Ginn). We're really going to have to be exacting with what we do.

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

We always strive to make records that sound good to us. We have very exacting tastes.

Everything is now in place to launch definitive testing in mid-March. At that time we will be conducting two tests/demos with various government agencies and authorities. While we are disappointed in the scheduling delays, we are charting some new territory and we want to be assured that our system is operating to the exacting standards required to achieve desired results.

Preparing the roe is a very exacting process. It has to be brined in multiple stages, in a specific fashion. We don't do that here -- it all has to be processed in Japan.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.

This bill is about sending a message to irresponsible dog owners, and not just jailing a bad neighbor. This bill is about ... closing a legal loophole--not merely exacting vengeance.

It's a very exacting science because you have to have the right serial number for each savings-bond buyer.

It's a very exacting process. You want to do it, and you want it to be permanent; you don't want to have to go back and do it again at some point.

It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.

I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

These four additions will help me, my successors, and all our 7,000 employees maintain the company's exacting standards and keep our products ahead of our customers' needs,