Probe Quotes

66 quotes by 62 authors

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. — Jimmy Carter
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have… — William Albert Allard
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,… — Margaret Bourke-White
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… — George Washington
NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck… — William J. Clinton
Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The… — Amy Poehler
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. — Edith Wharton
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how,… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in… — F. David Peat
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you… — M. John Harrison
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover… — Joshua L. Liebman
The only way through painâ€¦is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means.Â To close the door on pain is to… — May Sarton
Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with… — Unknown Author
Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe… — Owen Gingerich

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