#observe

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#keeps #moderately #neither #nor #observes

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#bus #fears #get #happen #having

It is not observed in history that families improve with time. ↗

— George William Curtis

#history #improve #observed #time

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer. ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#give #i #information #observer #say

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#itself #method #nature #observe #our

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. ↗

— David Dinkins

#administration #am #certain #contemporary #differently

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone