Description Quotes
518 quotes by 442 authors
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Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
— Mayim Bialik
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
— Lord Chesterfield
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching,…
— Amy Chua
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The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.
— Hillary Clinton
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a…
— Leonard Cohen
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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
— Tori Amos
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Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
— Alfred Lunt
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the…
— Humphry Davy
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
— Ishmael Reed
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A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
— John Daido Loori
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
— Jane Austen
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it…
— Richard Baxter
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