Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our… — Starhawk
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. — David Maister
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. — Alfred Shrubb
Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do… — Marci Shimoff
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest… — Alan Moore
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host… — Fareed Zakaria
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working… — Gottfried Leibniz
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,… — John Henry Newman
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary… — Klemens von Metternich
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it… — C.S. Lewis
To me, self-description is a calamity. — Jasper Johns
We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension… — Tony Robbins
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. — Charles Darwin
The power of the rosary is beyond description. — Fulton J. Sheen
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained… — Ronald Ross
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as… — Niels Bohr
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm… — Anton Chekhov
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. — Anton Chekhov

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