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Quotes About Examine

Physical law is what makes it possible to study the past; examine the state of the universe closely enough, and we can infer its state a moment earlier in time.
~ Ted Chiang
In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
~ Jim Costa
I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
~ Tom Baker
Her neck throbbed and burned for a moment. She peeled back her top to examine the wound. It was a strange mark, like a teenager's love bite, but more intense. She blushed at the memory of how he'd put it there. Did the man have to be sexy on top of everything else?
~ Christine Feehan
And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
~ Umberto Eco
De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)
~ Vaclav Smil
WHEN the plane finally began to descend, Mitch Rapp turned to the window and examined the grid of runways and buildings
~ Kyle Mills
As she lifted the skirt to examine it, Hunter stepped into the lodge, sending her scurrying for cover under the buffalo robe. Flashing her a mischievous smile, he said, "Maiden sent the clothes. Next time, you will not be wrapped in so much wannup , yes? It will take us much less time to do nothing.
~ Catherine Anderson
and exemplify this rethinking of virtually enabled and enhanced learning institutions, we used this project to examine potential new models of digital learning.
~ Cathy N. Davidson
Only "those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves," said Smith, "have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.
~ Gordon S. Wood
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
~ A. H. Boyd
But it is part of the business of the writer—as I see it—to examine attitudes, to go beneath the surface, to tap the source.
~ James Baldwin
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
~ Baron d'Holbach
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
~ David Bergen
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
~ Norma McCorvey
I love Coach K's passion to coach his players and to coach the game. I examined and watched the interaction between him and his staff, along with the players, and was impressed how hard they played.
~ Jayson Tatum
You will find professed quotations from authors, of the correctness of which you will not be satisfied; and how important is it to be able to satisfy yourself by examining the originals!
~ Theodore Dwight
The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'
~ Dana Loesch
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is required.
~ Victor Hugo
The remembrance of that life is fraught with so much pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope, that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I was doomed to lead it. Whether it lasted for a year, or more, or less, I do not know. I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
~ Charles Dickens
Your life is a painting in a dark museum and sometimes you examine it closely
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
No one should take comfort in sin. The church is impure; we cannot always distinguish between the wheat and tares in this age. But a day is coming when that distinction will be made. The harvest will come. The wheat will be gathered into God's barn, and the tares will be burned. As a result, we should examine ourselves as to whether we are true children of God or not. And we should be careful to "confirm [our] calling and election," as Peter indicates (2 Pet. 1:10).
~ James Montgomery Boice
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
~ Shulamith Firestone