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“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”

“Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."”

Jobs Girl Contradiction Description Brows

Author:Tammara Webber

“Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,” she said as patiently as she could, “and Lady Clara’s reputation will be stained forever. Do not, I pray you, do anything, Lord Longmore. Leave this to us.” “Us.” “My sisters and me.” “What do you propose? Dressing him to death? Tying him up and making him listen to fashion descriptions?”

Said Lord Forever Blood Fashion Cold Praying Reputation Description Grants My Sister Dressings I Pray Propose Just Listen Clara

Book:Scandal Wears Satin

Source: Scandal Wears Satin

“Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.”

Jobs Arrogance Description Alphas

Author:Gail Carriger

“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.”

Want Sleep Novel Mets Pages Satisfied Description Haiku

Book:Fall Higher

Source: Fall Higher

“My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Generally, I preferred people to be falling in and out of love, but I didn't mind so much if they tried their hand at something else. It was vulgar to want it, but I liked someone to say 'Marry me' by the end.”

People Ifs Want Needs Mind Believe Made Ends Character Hands Happens Wanted Fall Simple Fine Weather Curious Landscape Bother Phrases Theme Description Interiors Vulgar Marry Me Sweet Tooth

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.”

World Writing Hard Remember Opinion Description

Author:Anne Enright

“The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.”

Heart Light Eye Inspired Awe Description Her Eyes Love At First Sight Instill Purifying

Author:Umberto Eco

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.”

Way Trying Ends Reality Seems Eye Silence Happened Events Demand Travel Comfortable Affair Instance Narrative Explanation Description Love Affair Irritating Machu Picchu

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.”

People Knows Way Giving Trying I Can My Own Accounts Who I Am Description Grants Hiding Know Me Outlines Understand Me Tailors Precious Gifts

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.”

Book Facts Lasts Dies Alive Thousand Pages Graves Snow Description Fifth

Author:George R. R. Martin

“A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.”

Ifs Trying Ends Reason Together Faces Bits Perfect Numbers Business Produce Approach Shots Claims Structure Campaigns Brands Reason Why Description Packs Somewhere Else

Author:Stephen King

“Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.”

Feels Helping Today Jobs Understanding Challenges Business Paint Planning Brands Consumers Description Temporary Behaviour Vivid

Author:James W. Moseley

“Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.”

Life Mind Past Love Is Products Reactions Description New Life Demonstrating Synthesis

Author:Barry Long

“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.”

War Reality Peace Fool Description Fraud Anti War Antiwar Wretched Peace War

Author:John McCain

“To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.”

Men Made Use Science Certain Elements Description Chemicals Engineering Fertilizer

Author:Hermann Joseph Muller

“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.”

People Mind May Has Beens Body Young Known Materials Months Balls Dancing Dance Passing Passings Instance Injury Description

Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.”

“Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.”

Men Believe Children Soul Happens Hope Parent Grief Imagine Unhappy Description Upbringing Paralyzed

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.”

World Trying Hands Science Mathematical Boxing Description Capture Quantum Precise Physicist Gloves Crude Catchers Boxing Gloves

Author:George Johnson

“Charm is that extra quality that defies description.”

Quality Self Esteem Esteem Extras Charm Description

Author:Alfred Lunt

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.”

Ifs Men Should Two War Country Government Accepting Worst He Man Experiments Civil War Description Prize Hostility Remarks Two Countries Galvanism

Author:Humphry Davy

“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.”

World Self Country Nature Journey Travel Description Funny Travel Acquaintance

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.”

Firsts Two Government Lasts Law Force Liberty Definitions Description Despotism

Book:The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

Ifs Mean Children School Reading Nations Justice Deals Education Diversity Social Justice Suicide Prison Inequality Description More Money Bent Literacy

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.”

Writing Justice Diversity Social Justice Definitions Description Categories Multicultural

Author:Ishmael Reed

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

Interest Education Citizens Concern Educational Description Permit Instruction Poorest

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand - i.e., the metaphysics of quantum theory - is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”