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I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything. — Toby Young
But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have… — Gerhard Richter
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You… — Charles Van Doren
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need… — Maya Lin
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a… — C.S. Lewis
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for… — Hernando Cortes
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either. — Timothy Keller
Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead. — Seth Godin
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about… — Moshe Safdie
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working… — Gottfried Leibniz
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe. — Francis Asbury
You can't describe the feeling of being in love - when you meet someone who makes you a better person. — Zac Efron
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the… — Robert Nozick
Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait,… — Andrea Dworkin
What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about… — Chuck Klosterman
Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe… — Roger E. Olson
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even… — Jim Rohn

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