Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described… — Brian Setzer
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist — Kwame Nkrumah
Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described… — Boyd K. Packer
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple… — Satya Nadella
The description is not the described. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their… — Thomas A. Edison
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and distinct… — Pope Pius XI
There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at… — Washington Irving
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great. — George Muller
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described… — Christopher Lasch
A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success. — Robert Musil
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic… — Kofi Annan
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a… — Jimmy Carr
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a… — Walter E. Williams
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry — Thomas Cole
Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So… — Thomas Nagel
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of… — Benjamin Tucker
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached,… — Gangaji
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment… — Richard John Neuhaus
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and… — Lise Meitner
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The… — Fred Hoyle
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics… — Brian Greene
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything — Stephen Leacock
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even… — Susan Cain
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One… — Arlie Russell Hochschild

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