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Quotes About Examination

Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.
~ William Bratton
I have eaten brains, my tongue loves to probe the delicate folds
~ Sharon Olds
How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth
~ Sharon Shinn
She did an excellent job, dear. We have a new water heater now. A waterless water heater. I plan to examine it tomorrow." "No!" his entire family said, making him jump. Even the granddaughter on his lap looked up into his face and said with the solemn wisdom of a four-year-old, "Don't, Grandpa.
~ Shelly Laurenston
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.
~ George Eliot
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.
~ Jay Maisel
I can't look at everything hard enough!
~ Thornton Wilder, Our Town
The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship
~ Sunday Adelaja
I don't want to look. I've got to look." Vance... "Vital Perception
~ D.L. Given
He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.
~ Mary McCarthy
her eyes narrowed as she searched my face like a doctor examining a patient for symptoms.
~ Barack Obama
So this was the mental procedure, which even a little girl could learn: First, size up the situation. Make sure you have all the facts, and nothing but the facts—no folklore, no conventional wisdom, no lazy assumptions. Then examine the facts for patterns and connections. Make a prediction. See if it works. And if it doesn't work, start all over again.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
have had a field day here.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
I can't give a full analysis here
~ Bart D. Ehrman
while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.
~ Stephen King
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view. T
~ Stephen R. Covey
This significantly limits our personal potential and our ability to relate to others as well. But because of the unique human capacity of self-awareness, we can examine our paradigms to determine whether they are reality- or principle-based or if they are a function of conditioning and conditions.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to
~ Stephen R. Covey
influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Buddhism is not a belief system. It's not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It's about examining the world clearly and carefully, about testing everything and every idea. Buddhism is about seeing. It's about knowing rather than believing or hoping or wishing. It's also about not being afraid to examine anything and everything, including our own personal agendas.
~ Steve Hagen
big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room.
~ Steve Martini
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
~ Jonathan Edwards