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I like observing people. I like looking at things.
- Virginia Woolf
You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.
- Virginia Woolf
Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.
- Virginia Woolf
To begin with, I ran my eye up and down the page. I am going to get the hang of her sentences first, I said, before I load my memory with blue eyes and brown and the relationship that there may be between Chloe and Roger. There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.
- Virginia Woolf
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
- Graham Greene
Putting aside everything that might excite laughter by its absurdity, or detestation by its profaneness, and confining ourselves merely to an examination of the parts, it is impossible to conceive a story more derogatory to the Almighty, more inconsistent with his wisdom, more contradictory to his power, than this story is.
- Thomas Paine
As a spiritual seeker, I understand that this journey requires you to not only embrace all that is whole and good in your life but also to continually examine the long-buried wounds hidden beneath your carefully crafted surface. This is what I mean when I say, "Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
- Confucius
The kid looked at Tobin. What's he a judge of?
- Cormac McCarthy
There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.
- Dale Carnegie
More than that, we invite you to look at your words through the lens of Scripture.
- Timothy Lane
For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12
- Dale Carnegie