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Quotes About Investigation

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
~ Adam Schiff
Following the footnotes of a Lincoln book can drive you towards madness. But it also gives you the chance to spend days trying to determine whether Lincoln might have actually taken a ride on a flying piano, and that's a damned interesting way to spend one's working life.
~ Adam Selzer
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.
~ Adrianne Lee
I came to explore the wreck.
~ Adrienne Rich
Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.
~ Maria Ressa
I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.
~ Regina Hall
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
~ James Comey
Some people perceive 'Ghost Adventures' to just be a ghost show on TV, but things are getting very serious, and we are making history in our findings.
~ Zak Bagans
Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.
~ Sudha Chandran
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
~ Pat Brown
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
~ Martin Chemnitz
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Being human and investigating the affairs of the gods is an extreme version of being tone-deaf and talking about music, or having never served in the army and talking about warfare: we resemble amateurs trying to use arguments from probability based on opinions and conjecture to unearth the ideas of experts. Given
~ Plutarch
Justice M.C. Jain's interim report29 suggested that the DMK and its leadership had been involved in encouraging Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and his followers.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.
~ Preet Bharara
In the final analysis, the cops work for the Party system, and private investigators work for their clients. That's why even the term 'PI' is still taboo in the official media.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
solve the old murder, she will lose not only her chance at love but may become the murderer's next victim.
~ Rachel Ann Nunes
we were ourselves again, ready to toothcomb the universe.
~ Rachel Ferguson
Do you really think that I don't have anything better to do than to spend my time thinking about you? Digging up a little of the goods on Luc Martineau?" Fine lines appeared at the corners of his eyes and he laughed. "Sweetheart, there is nothing little about Luc's goods.
~ Rachel Gibson
Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
~ David Talbot
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
~ Jeffery Deaver