Examine Quotes

462 Examine quotes by 384 unique authors

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief. — Orhan Pamuk
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… — Barbara Kingsolver
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have… — John Taylor Gatto
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the… — Robert A. Heinlein
Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly. — Annie Dillard
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle.… — J. Oswald Sanders
Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of… — Suzanne Collins
As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate.… — Jen Lancaster
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been… — Margaret George
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean… — Karen Marie Moning
We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own… — George MacDonald
Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. — Frances Mayes
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves… — James A. Baldwin
My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?"… — Cassandra Clare
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up… — Agatha Christie
An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully… — Katie MacAlister
Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my… — Janet Evanovich
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more… — Paul Auster
I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine… — Sidney Lumet
There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly.… — Howard Schultz
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. — Karen Marie Moning

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