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Quotes Tagged "scrutiny"

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
— Criss Jami Killosophy
Tags: uncertainty, son, skepticism, self-interest, scrutiny, rhetorical, mother, imprisonment, hypocrisy, god, free-will, dream, denial, crime, confusion, blame, biases, bias, belief, atrocities, apologetics, agenda
Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.
— James Jones The Thin Red Line
Tags: scrutiny, fear, existence, death
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
— Criss Jami Venus in Arms
Tags: uplifting, standing-your-ground, scrutiny, satan, ridicule, persistence, perseverance, judgment, happy, happiness, fear, devil, determination, critics, criticism, cowardice, confidence, certainty, boldness
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
— David Hockney
Tags: fraction, scrutiny, shutter, second, open
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