Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling… — Aristotle
Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who… — Bill Maher
Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now… — Zuheir Mohsen
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical… — Esther Hicks
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the… — Bruce R. McConkie
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you. — Barack Obama
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. — Garry Winogrand
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that. — Jason McAteer
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Unknown Author
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Unknown Author
An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang together, or assuredly,… — John F. Kerry
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to… — James Hansen
Al Gore is coming out with a movie about global warming called ' An Inconvenient Truth. ' It's described as a detailed scientific view of… — Jay Leno
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Unknown Author
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real… — James A. Baldwin
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the… — John Aldridge
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? — James Joseph Sylvester

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