It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy’s eloquence and social observation in ‘Sights and Spectacles’; she thinks in print, but she doesn’t have a real feel for the stage. – John Lahr
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other’s rights. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. – Ori Gersht
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation. – Robert Hewison
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. – Robert Baden-Powell
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. – Roman Jakobson
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. – Rudolf Arnheim
Until relatively recently, law enforcement’s ability to determine an individual’s location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. – Ron Wyden
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world. – Richard Dawkins
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. – Richard P. Feynman
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. – Wilhelm Wundt
But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you’ve got to give 110 percent. – Sam Donaldson
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation – only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. – Solomon Northup
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. – Walter Winchell
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease – a statement in which I am supported by observation. – Thomas Sydenham
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. – Samuel Richardson
I hadn’t stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn’t the same as being beaten. – Victor LaValle
