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635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse,… — Andrew Hill
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed. — Franz Wright
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. — Clay Shirky
When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office,… — Granville Sharp
The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence. — Joao Magueijo
I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. — Clarence Birdseye
In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of things they felt… — Marci Shimoff
As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor. — Michael J. Gelb
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark… — Gerald M. Loeb
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the… — Ansel Adams
A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding… — Bob Benson
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of… — Alfie Kohn
The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God… — Stasi Eldredge
So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be. — Pascal Mercier
Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may… — Issan Dorsey
Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,' the source for… — Angeles Arrien
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and… — Oriana Fallaci
A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in… — Unknown Author
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that… — Swami Vivekananda
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described… — Fred Hoyle
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. — Henry David Thoreau
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize… — Charles Krauthammer
I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described… — Tao Lin

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