Scrutinizing Quotes

#1. Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

Karl Barth

#2. As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Scott Lynch

#3. Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing ... Bok is ... on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

George Leef

#4. Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being.

Richard Dawkins

#5. To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

Socrates

#6. Everything was for show. He'd always need a group around him, and act out a role, usually one that made him look great to people who didn't do any serious scrutinizing.

Maura Curley

#7. I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.

Roberto Bolano

#8. He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.

Nicki Salcedo

#9. Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

Doris Lessing

#10. We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Carl Jung

#11. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.

Victor Hugo

#12. The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Neal Shusterman

#13. I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

Joaquin Phoenix

#14. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#15. Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

John Berger

#16. I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

Anthony Fauci

#17. It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence because she was a turtle. To these naive souls I would reply that hate, like laughter, makes less noise the deeper it is.
-pg 100

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#18. I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.

Robert Crumb

#19. Jared felt vaguely unsettled that she'd noticed. He wasn't used to adults scrutinizing his behavior. He hadn't meant to take take so many booksbut they were the kind he liked, about made-up olden days when the world made sense, about death and love and honor.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#20. You cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.

Denmwen

#21. I smile back at her. "I must be stronger than I look." "All women are," my doctor adds while scrutinizing the womaniest part of me, improvising a pattern upon which to seam the torn pieces and hem the jagged edges. Clint

Hope Jahren

#22. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

Sheryl Sandberg

#23. Her head practically swiveled, and her laser-beam stare honed in on Ryan, thoroughly scrutinizing him. He'd felt less violated after a TSA strip search.

Tracy Brogan

#24. You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

Steve Odland

#25. I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.

Bruce H. Lipton

#26. Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.

Bryant McGill

#27. There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Jose Andres

#28. Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Jess C. Scott

#29. While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

Colm Toibin

#30. Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded?

Cecilia London

#31. Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Eliot Spitzer

#32. The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Allen Ginsberg

#33. I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.

Lindsey Vonn

#34. The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Atterbury

#35. I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.

Harris Wittels

#36. Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody's around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?

Craig Johnson

#37. I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

John Bellairs

#38. All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.

Patrick Modiano

#39. I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

Joseph Conrad

#40. The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Rudolf Arnheim

#41. The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.

Roland Burrage Dixon

#42. Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening.

Jonathan Jackson

#43. I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

Ross Lynch