#procedure

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#democratic #dictatorship #fig #hide #leaves

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#craft #describing #had #hundred #incident

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#beautiful #beautiful things #business #hopefully #inspirational

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#also #arbitration #composition #concluded #conflicts

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#could #creepy #every #feel #had

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#bolts #i #nuts #procedure #streets

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#children #education #fails #focus #frustrates

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? ↗

— Lee Child

#could #frustrating #great #just #know

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#correctness #educational #happiness #procedure #test

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution