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  • And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

  • Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

    Faithful   Satan   Tricks  
    Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.21, Solid Christian Books
  • You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

    Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation
  • And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects. "Only when they've been naughty.

    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
  • Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.

    Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.156, iUniverse
  • I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  • A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

    Wise   Men   Stronger  
    David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

    Believe   Leader   Church  
    "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.
  • In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

    "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
  • I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

    Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.179, Vintage
  • Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

    Wise   Science   Water  
  • In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

    Mistake   Focus   Kitchen  
  • The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  • If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

    Reality   Creating   Mind  
  • He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

    Voice   Trying   Twelve  
    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin
  • No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

    Book   Today   Hell  
  • Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

    People   Routine   Asking  
  • I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.

    "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 24, 2016.
  • The unlived life is not worth examining.

  • Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

    Thinking   Knowing   Mind  
  • People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

    Self   People   Details  
    Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.204, Atlantic Books
  • We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

  • A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

    Believe   Pride   Giving  
  • I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

    Grief   Believe   Years  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text.

    Keys   Finals   Energy  
  • I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

    Hurt   Home   Opening Up  
    Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin
  • When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

    Funny   Cutting   Shoes  
    Clive James (1991). “Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)”, Isis Large Print Books
  • We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

  • Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

    Math   Men   Wife  
    Impact of Science on Society ch. 1 (1952)
  • Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

    Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.5, Pan Macmillan
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