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Quotes About Examination

I hope you will be surprised and knowing at once. I hope you'll always have love. I hope you'll always have a good sense of humour. I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason, self-examination is not disloyalty.
~ Richard Cushing, 1965
But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.
~ D. H. Lawrence, 1923
JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers.
~ H.L. Mencken
What if we brainstormed for Questions?
~ Hal Gregersen
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
~ Hanif Kureishi
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Study men, not historians.
~ Harry S. Truman
All situations of life are tests to bring out the real and the false.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.
~ Lawrence Kushner
It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.
~ leadbeater c w
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.
~ lee bruce iii
There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.
~ Lemony Snicket
Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great many of them and had retained a lot of the information from his readings. He knew how to tell an alligator from a crocodile. He knew who killed Julius Caesar. And he knew much about the tiny, slimy animals found at Briny Beach, which he was examining now.
~ Lemony Snicket
If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.
~ Lemony Snicket
But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them
~ Lemony Snicket
Then I carefully dipped my brush and wrote the characters for family, country, and book. When the examiner smiled, I knew he liked my work, so I decided to write the hardest character I knew, which was the one for virtue. It took fifteen strokes.
~ Lensey Namioka
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As the pages that follow confirm, race may not be a reality, but racial thinking is, and, as such, warrants closer examination.
~ James Shapiro
It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know what it meant. She was forever climbing up the margins of books and crawling between their lines for the little gold of phrase, making marks with a pencil. As Palamides hunted the Questing Beast, she hunted the Figure of Speech. She hunted it through the clangorous halls of Shakespeare and through the green forests of Scott.
~ James Thurber
poking around in this dump, as it would be
~ Jane Smiley
Here's the thing," Riley said. "I'm not really into diabolical possibilities. I'm more into logical explanations.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
~ Pontius Pilate