Probing Quotes
32 quotes by 32 authors
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Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times,…
— Roger von Oech
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I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
— Emily Dickinson
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits…
— Rod Serling
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible…
— Steven Spielberg
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A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent…
— Timothy Keller
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And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.
— Lauren Kate
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Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years…
— Philip Pullman
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The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
— Gore Vidal
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We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
— Bryant H. McGill
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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
— Chris Lilley
Who Wrote These Probing Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 32 Probing Quotes, led by these top contributors: