Redescribing Quotes & Sayings

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do. — Richard Dawkins

But you're acting like that's the end of the story, that the brokenness is the final answer. When you know very well that it's not. You've always said that at the end of the story the world will be healed, fixed, all wrongs finally righted. And that what's broken is being redeemed, little by little, even now. — Noelle Adams

The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own. — Richard M. Rorty

When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently. — Sharon Cooper

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular. — Cory Booker

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think. — Jerry Yang

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue holds eternity in its hands. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths. — Roland V. Libonati

If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong. — Kate Morton