The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services more than anyone they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

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.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Woman or more precisely put perhaps marriage is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.