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The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. — Ingmar Bergman

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. — A.O. Scott

I like to play dirty. I can also be very, very exacting." Rate St. Sebastian. — Samanthe Beck

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. — Ben Stein

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. — Paul Graham

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones

Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone. — Martin Luther

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. — Jacques Maritain

You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way. — Joseph Hansen

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast. — Jess Walter

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. — Eugene Delacroix

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

His mother was exacting revenge because he'd dared to marry me, and his father - well, we weren't exactly sure. Either — Sara Gruen

When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time — Josh Stern

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself. — Karl G. Maeser

So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting. — Sara Seale

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning. — Dominic Smith

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. — Sir Fulke Greville

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. — Danilo Dolci

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself. — Franz Grillparzer

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. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge. — Evan Currie

All we achieve by exacting revenge is to make ourselves the equals of our enemies, whereas by forgiving we show wisdom and intelligence. — Paulo Coelho

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting. — Richard Wright

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. — J. Oswald Sanders

the exacting memory of childhood can discover no flaw - nothing but kindness, gaiety, and good sense. — C.S. Lewis

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. — Susan Abulhawa

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun
the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. — Franz Grillparzer

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song. — Dan Bejar

Things change, people change,
change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives. — Nicholas Sparks

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams

Perfect specimens for an exacting science... — D.E. Meredith

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting. — Mason Cooley

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran