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The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
— Ingmar Bergman
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
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
When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time
— Josh Stern
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
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
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 funthe body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. — Franz Grillparzer
Things change, people change,change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives. — Nicholas Sparks
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