Examine

Famous quotes containing the word examine:

“The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present—henceforth?—the subject to which you are condemned.”
—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)

“Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

“Next, pipes are lit by those who smoke, and veils are donned by those who have them, and we hastily examine and dry our plants, anoint our faces and hands, and go to bed—and—the mosquitoes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)