Scrutiny Quotes · Page 4

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

— Maajid Nawaz

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

— George W. Bush

The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

— Lauren Jauregui

All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.

— David Ray Griffin

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

— Tom Ford

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

— Stephen Hawking

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny…

— James Surowiecki

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would…

— Christopher Phillips

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend…

— Madhuri Dixit

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you…

— Chris Rock

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached…

— Annabelle Selldorf

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough,…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either…

— Maxwell Maltz

His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for…

— Kwame Nkrumah

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to…

— Lucian Freud

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring…

— Jared Harris

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you…

— Carl Sagan

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they…

— George Ade

For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to…

— Larry Rosenberg

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want…

— Seymour Sarason

I've had so much scrutiny over the way I speak, I've learned to ignore all the noise but at first it was…

— Dorit Kemsley

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

— Barack Obama

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

— William Cowper

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

— Paul Scholes

I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live…

— Keith Ellison

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

— Nate Mendel

The sanctimony that a section of the media wears like a second skin comes undone so fast when the scrutiny is on…

— Barkha Dutt

The fixation on preserving our faces is laughable but it also seems almost logical given societal pressure and scrutiny.

— Angela Scanlon

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example…

— Edward Snowden

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

— Tim Howard

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

— Jemima Khan

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

— Anat R. Admati

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

— Urmila Matondkar

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been…

— Donald Trump