#thorough

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer. ↗

— William Proxmire

#knows #lord #pope #prayer #tax

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#business #down #drilling #efficiently #ensure

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#be the first #benefits #coming #course #discussed

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#bigot #call #definite #dogma #end

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference. ↗

— Jil Sander

#another #appease #difference #enjoy #equal

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#disadvantage #english #great #know #language

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#deeply #destruction #failure #far #find

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#am #beings #human #human beings #i

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#harder #i #life #live #more

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#corruption #eliminate #exist #foundations #motivations