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Quotes About Scrutiny

A man's right to confer judgment on any woman's beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given.
~ Naomi Wolf
Gone out to look for a hair to split, I expect.
~ Catherine Aird
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
~ Arthur Baer
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
~ Suzanne Fields
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
~ John Griffin Carlisle
I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.
~ Fallon Fox
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
~ Andre Leon Talley
Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
~ Natalia Kills
There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.
~ Blake Shelton
Since I was 16 years old entering professional league, all the eyes were on me. And in Milan you have to win... every game.
~ Danilo Gallinari
Since my international debut in 2014 the miles on the clock have probably crept up and Test cricket is the level where the pressure and scrutiny are greatest.
~ Moeen Ali
Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
~ Thomas Hardy
I inked up Lombard and all his Merry Men, major case prints whether they said they had touched her or not. They're scrubbing their hands and bitching now.
~ Thomas Harris
Again, I checked my rear.
~ Kathy Reichs
A pastor stands at the crossroads of a congregation's conflicted conscience. It is a congested intersection, this place. Standing in the middle of it can be dizzying, frightening, awful, especially under the intense scrutiny that comes with religious controversy. You have to keep your wits about you to discern whether the groaning in your gut echoes the groaning of the Spirit.
~ Ken Wilson
They better be darn ready to show a detailed file of all of the other steps they took before they overruled the [lead investigator's] judgment, the person in the best position to determine whether or not there was probably cause to arrest George Zimmerman."
~ Kendall Coffey
two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.
~ C.J. Box
In any investigation, what are the most relevant circumstances? None," he would bark in reply. "All the circumstances are relevant, everything must be examined from every angle!
~ C.J. Sansom
To reestablish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation.
~ Cal newport
The Principle of Least Resistance, protected from scrutiny by the metric black hole, supports work cultures that save us from the short-term discomfort of concentration and planning, at the expense of long-term satisfaction and the production of real value.
~ Cal newport
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
They were unabashed voyeurs looking at him; and Talese looked back.
~ Gay Talese
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
~ George Clooney
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
~ George Eliot