Describe Quotes
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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 -
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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Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.
Morten Harket A-ha -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
Geoffrey Miller
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
Jane Austen -
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.
Anthony Zee -
I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.
Bob Sanders -
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 -
They describe the feeling of being online as a kind of anesthesia that eases the pain of everyday life.
Edward Hallowell -
It is ridiculous to think of the creation of the world as occurring on a certain date—say, in the autumn of 4004 B.C.E.! It is equally ridiculous to describe a creator as a vengeful, adoration-hungry patriarch who lives in the clouds and whose scowling, bearded face is guaranteed to frighten children and intimidate the pious. And indeed, it is just as ridiculous to go to the other extreme and postulate a quantum creator-god who is discernible only as a sort of fuzzy cosmic hologram of all there is.
Bernard Haisch
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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 -
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 -
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.
Georges Perec -
'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
Alan Carrun -
I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.
Lil Yachty -
Just being in a video game is an honor, and being on the cover, I can't really describe it.
Aaron Judge
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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 -
The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
I'm a chilled-out player, if that's the best way to describe me.
Jack Grealish -
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.
Anne Bogart