Describe Quotes
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The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
Anatol Rapoport
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I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.
Norman Rush
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I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.
Elna Baker
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I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.
Lil Yachty
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Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
Geoffrey Miller
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.
Alexander Polyakov
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But once you describe something, you destroy it.
Barry Webster
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein
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Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?
Georges Didi-Huberman
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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
Confucius
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
Lord Byron
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.
Paul Krugman
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I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.
Bob Sanders
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'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
Alan Carrun
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
Tom Cruise
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
Immanuel Kant
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
Wilfred Burchett
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Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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I'm a chilled-out player, if that's the best way to describe me.
Jack Grealish
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Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.
Anthony Zee
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You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their child had been killed. So this is a very personal side to each one of these mothers "Mothers of the Movement".
Ed Gordon