Famous quotes containing the words avoid, precision and/or loss:
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)