Description Quotes
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.
Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.
I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.
I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.
For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.
I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.
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 kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.
