Descriptions Quotes

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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
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
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
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is… — Paul Hawken
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and… — Albert Einstein
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that… — John Shelby Spong
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the… — Peter Singer
...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — F. M. Scherer
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,… — James Madison
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
Recipes are just descriptions of one personâ€™s take on one moment in time. Theyâ€™re not rules. — Mario Batali
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell… — Michael Ruhlman
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But… — J. G. Ballard
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as… — Ann Radcliffe
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,… — Don Berliner
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. — Gautama Buddha
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein

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