Patrick Bateman: I hope I'm not being cross-examined here. Donald Kimball: Do you feel that way? Patrick Bateman: No, not really.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.
By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.
...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.
Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
