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Quotes About Investigation

guards, while the ferret searched his pitiful left
~ John Martin
But as much as I was a full-time doctor now, I'd been a doctor and a cop before. One does not become either of those things due to a congenital lack of curiosity.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I wondered if it had eaten a suspect. If I had, I hoped the suspect deserved it. It seemed like a good cop, as such things went, and I'd hate to think less of it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Can you run down whatever's blocked Sally's awareness of the event? I… what are the odds that that's evidence of… that worm, or something that's still messing with her functionality?" "Working on it." Loese waved me out of the cubby and sealed the hatch. "Really, really working on it. Now go do your job.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It wasn't difficult to discover where the courtesan in the domino mask lived: not far from the murdered boys, which was as Sebastien would have wagered.
~ Elizabeth Bear
And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.
~ Elizabeth Drew
They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...
~ Elizabeth Peters
who would mark a sweater, steal a bra, take one shoe?
~ Elizabeth Strout
The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Bacon's curiosity makes him sound amazingly modern, and in many ways he was. But his writings look back as much as they look forward, and the figure to whom he owes his greatest debt is without doubt Aristotle, whom he discovered through his admiration for Grosseteste.5 Aristotle's works unlocked for Bacon a world of scientific investigation, above all a method of exploring the wonders of nature and understanding its underlying principles
~ Arthur Herman
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~ Arthur Machen
ment Agency, which did such a wonderful job on Hur icane Katrina). Funding for the FEMA investigation was only $600,000 and it appears that
~ Arthur Naiman
F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn't really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.
~ Arthur Stinchcombe
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity" (C. H. Spurgeon).
~ Arthur W. Pink
Ustawowo policja poszukuje jedynie przest?pców, a nie dziwnych ludzi.
~ Arto Paasilinna
Why don't we go to the police?" "And say what? That Milady and Rochefort, Cardinal Richelieu's agents, have stolen from us a chapter of The Three Musketeers and a book for summoning Lucifer? That the devil has fallen in love with me and been incarnated as a twenty-year-old girl who now acts as my bodyguard? What would you do if you were Inspector Maigret and I came and told you all that.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
All form, therefore, is like a dream, And who will be attached to it, who thus investigates? The body, in this way, has no existence; What, therefore, is male and what is female?
~ ??ntideva
I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.
~ Ashley Gardner
The defense team's headquarters, located in New Brunswick, was broken into, papers rummaged through and stolen, and the judge refused to investigate, calling the motion "frivolous.
~ Assata Shakur