Describable Means Quotes & Sayings

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore De Balzac

He tasted like a dark, decadent dessert. I had a feeling I could live on that taste alone for months; that his kiss was something I could become addicted to. — Nichole Chase

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. — Edmund Burke

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined ... they are individuals in their own right. — Jane Goodall

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. — Ed Gillespie

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'
Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7 — C.S. Lewis

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I felt as lonely and desolate as a man suddenly fallen from the clouds into an unknown town on the Antarctic Continent built of ice and inhabited by Penguins. Who are these people? I asked myself irritably. — W.N.P. Barbellion

Being a scientist means that you should be able to put your faith to the test, and be willing to surrender it should evidence so require. But it does not mean we have no beliefs. In fact, the very discipline of science is based on the belief that the world is comprehensible, and even more audaciously, that it is mathematically describable. The thing about scientific beliefs is that they are not arbitrary. They're not just random opinions we plucked out of the sky; we came to them through observation and experience, and so far, these beliefs have always been vindicated. — Tasneem Zehra Husain

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard

There is a middle ground in things. — Horace

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the threshold of describable individuality and made of this description a means of control and a method of domination. — Michel Foucault

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are. — Laurie Frankel

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. — Colum McCann

There is energy and power in a crisis. — Andrew Cuomo

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance ... and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen. — Richard L. Evans

Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? — Ron Killings