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Quotes About Procedure

A motion to adjourn is always in order.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
But procedure is procedure," I said. "Un-huh." "Why I left the cops," I said. "You left the cops because they canned your ass for being an insubordinate fucking hot dog," Healy said. "Well, yeah," I said. "That too.
~ Robert B. Parker
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
~ David Brooks
the details of every legal proceeding
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Congress decided to finish the already drawn-out process of investigating
~ Debi Unger
Give it to me!" the woman screamed. "Give it to me!" Nye scuttled over. "Mr Scapegrace, you know the procedure cannot be repeated, your brains are in far too deteriorated a condition." "You! Gave! Me! The! Wrong! Body!
~ Derek Landy
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
The logic of episiotomy was that a second-degree tear would prevent a third- or fourth-degree tear, but studies conducted through the 1980s and 1990s found the opposite to be true. One study found that episiotomy makes such an injury nine times more likely.
~ Jennifer Block
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
~ Jennifer Echols
You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method produces numerous results
~ Emanuel Lasker
XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, — Life!
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.
~ Eoin Colfer
You can actually take a weekend course in cosmetic surgery.
~ Paul Nassif
Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
~ Ted Cruz
Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.
~ Denis McDonough
We can get rid of red tape.
~ Charlie Daniels
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
~ James Q. Wilson
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
~ George Crumb
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.
~ Jeff Miller
Theoretically, the procedure might be more stable if it was applied to a human fetus in vivo. An unborn child in the womb.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth. He couldn't follow any known method of procedure to uncover its cause because it was these methods and procedures that were all screwed up in the first place. So he drifted. That was all he could do.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
I was still left with having to peel the tape off my arm, and the IV itself had to come out, mustn't forget that. "If you want it fast, I'll do it," Edward said. I nodded, and he ripped the tape off my arm along with the IV. "Ow!" He smiled. "Sissy." "Sociopath." Doctor
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.
~ Karl Popper
They'd insert a probe into the patient's head to press the nodule and the patient's immediate response would be to shout out, "FUCK IT! WHY NOT?
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson