Observed Quotes

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

We observed smoke from the Chinese rigs and we believe that production started on Tuesday.

That's our basic requirement-[no falling hair] to make sure that hygiene is observed during food preparation.

`Bourgeois', I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.'.

We have all observed the failure of political processes to make public servants accountable for wrongdoings.

To listen, to learn, your mind has to be still. Have you ever observed that you can have only one thought in your mind at a time?

The officer observed a male being chased by the dog. The dog bit the male and the male was crying for help. Our officer went up to him and tried to get to dog to let go of him and he didn't.

We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.

They've already been observed mating. I was not here, but I have been told.

Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asia, which was around 58 percent.

This species of bat has been observed capturing insects near the ground and vegetation, which suggests they have a wider repertoire of sonar-guided behavior than previously recognized. We thought the sonar strobe groups might be well suited to helping the bat distinguish a small object from the more complex background you would find in the wild.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur.

I've been in a court before and observed, but I never went up to the judge. I'm getting more interaction with judges and everything.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?