#thorough

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

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#anything #cut #life #preparation #requires

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#been #circumstances #live #men #men and women

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form. ↗

— Edward Irving

#beginning #controversies #could #form #give

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#garden #gives #happiness #i #know

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#abraham lincoln #choice #conceive #could #i

...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#thoroughness #work-ethic #ethics

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ↗

— Aristotle

#exclusive #knowledge #power #sign #teaching