Quotes About Examining

The truth often appears in the guise of a threat to the social code. It has this in common with rudeness. When people tell the truth, they can experience a feeling of release from pretence that is perhaps similar to the release of rudeness. It might follow that people can mistake truth for rudeness, and rudeness for truth. It may only be by examining the aftermath of each that it becomes possible to prove which was which.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

I spend a lot of time looking up.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

We interrogate the world by making.

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

examining the whole horizonless question of desire

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself.

flipped backward from the appendix and started looking

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. [Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I like to correct the tests.

Feminism's crusade remains unfinished because examining the 'personal' is far more threatening than condemning the political.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity; nor is that curiosity ever more agreeably or usefully employed, than in examining the laws and customs of foreign nations.

How can we enable the unconscious to realize itself? By granting it freedom of expression and then examining what it has expressed.

But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.

People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that... just like in real life.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.