Procedures Quotes

258 quotes by 232 authors

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to… — Salvador Dali
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making… — Aldous Huxley
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you,… — Eoin Colfer
The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going… — Paul Quarrington
Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. â€œThatâ€™s not standard procedure,â€ he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over… — Rachel Vincent
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. — Umberto Eco
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in… — Haruki Murakami
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. — Agatha Christie
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. — Franz Kafka
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated… — Michel Foucault
You do realize this makes your wings even more unique." "Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure? — Nalini Singh
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse — Samuel Shem
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. — John Irving
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date,… — Steve Martin
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, â€œIâ€™m… — Tina Fey
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama

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