The function of the politician therefore is one of continuous watchfulness and activity and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

God may be in the details but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them there's no turning back.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic exaltation the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant predictable reliable universal and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.