Top 291 Examining Quotes & Sayings

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

I'm primarily interested in examining human issues.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

There's a billion and a half Muslim experiences. All I can give you is my one weird, self-examining perspective.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.