Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance… — Ibn Ata Allah
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described… — Ludwig von Mises
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society. — Asne Seierstad
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome… — Ezra Taft Benson
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and… — Plato
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. — George Carey
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their… — John F. Kennedy
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother… — B. H. Roberts
When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity. — Elizabeth May
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult… — Jeremy Brett
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to… — Edith Sitwell
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our… — Khalil Gibran
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction… — Rudolf Arnheim
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the… — Ivan Pavlov
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. — George Crumb
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses… — William Henry Ashley
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling… — Lafcadio Hearn
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. — Samuel Alexander
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. — Jeremy Irons
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with… — Alan Perlis

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