Describes Quotes

225 Describes quotes by 196 unique authors

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. — Homer
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the… — Ezra Taft Benson
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration. — Bertolt Brecht
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels. — E E Cummings
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real,… — Michael Behe
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote… — Rob Brezsny
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do… — Jean Baudrillard
Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing… — Eddie Griffin
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and… — Barack Obama
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,… — Christopher Columbus
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to… — Dean Ornish
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. — Frank Thomas
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. — Thomas Hood
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For… — Tom Robbins
I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as… — Elizabeth Gaskell
A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value. — Steve Blank
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven. — Tucker Max
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at… — Julia Sweeney
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who… — Niles Eldredge
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There… — Akif Pirincci
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. — Victor Cousin

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