Quotes About Investigate

The simple fact of the matter is that the Home Secretary has asked us to investigate what our Quaker friend chooses to call—for some strange reason of his own—"child prostitution". And whatever our personal feelings, it certainly won't damage our prospects of promotion if we come up with the result he desires.

If you do not search, you will not find.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. —WILLIAM A. WARD

Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature.

During the first half of the twentieth century, a few of your scientists began to investigate these matters. They did not know it, but they were tampering with the lock of Pandora's box. The forces they might have unleashed transcended any perils that the atom could have brought. For the physicists could only have ruined the Earth: the paraphysicists could have spread havoc to the stars.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Could he throw no light?

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.

Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it. They should, because they put it all in beforehand. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.

Effective management of open issues is purely about diligence. Someone has to both investigate potential problems and take the time to write them down.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Well, Mr. Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?" "To remember it--to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it.

Use your powers! Go to the scene of the crime! See the people concerned! Leave no stone unturned! In all your career you have never had so great a chance of serving your country.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.

I asked him if I could have a look around.