In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality. - Carroll Bryant
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience. - Edmund Wilson
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd. - Richard Feynman
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. - prixie
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances. - Andrew Motion
Best man describes himself by remarkable actions, not by persuasive words. - Bradley B. Dalina
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
At one point in my life I was a disappointment. I have popped pills, drugs, cheated, lied, and killed. But, at this moment in my life, I am very successful because not one of those things describes my character. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Music describes feelings: A melody is a word. A single notee is a letter. - Melchior van den Boogert
If you want something different, do something different. "Same crap, different day" doesn't describe the day; it describes your attitude towards it. - Steve Maraboli
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. - Robert Anton Wilson
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. - Victor Cousin