Quotes About Scrutiny

The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

do not just declare things to be irreducibly complex; the chances are that you haven't looked carefully enough at the details, or thought carefully enough about them.

We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.

The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.