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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years,… — George Best
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade… — Alan Ryan
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative. — Lester Beall
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily… — Mignon McLaughlin
Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle. — Diablo Cody
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of… — Robert Kennedy
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — Arthur Koestler
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the… — Gore Vidal
Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it… — Bonnie L. Oscarson
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was… — Blaise Pascal
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… — Carl Sagan
Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse,… — Karen Horney
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my… — Martin Amis
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the… — Keith O'Brien
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described… — Eddie Redmayne
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. — Thomas Sowell
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had… — Maj Sjowall
On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating. — Stephen Tobolowsky
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish;… — William Tyndale

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