Best Examined Thoughts
200 Examined quotes by 181 unique authors
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Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You’re hurting in…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must…
— C.S. Lewis
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor.…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians…
— Terry Pratchett
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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
— H.G. Wells
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Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian…
— Gordon Korman
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
— Hanif Kureishi
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I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of…
— E E Cummings
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He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of sweet-smelling, cough-induced smoke.…
— Cassandra Clare
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He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He…
— Lee Child
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my…
— Mary Oliver
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I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What…
— Kami Garcia
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The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are you kidding me…
— Gena Showalter
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
— Denis Diderot
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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual…
— Anne Sexton
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Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart
— Tammara Webber
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I should go in alone," Valkyrie said, speaking loudly to be heard. "If we both go in, it'll look to official." "So I'll just stay…
— Derek Landy
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The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.
— Tammara Webber
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Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled…
— Frances Hardinge
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In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone…
— Athol Fugard
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