Quotes about definitions
definitions life-happens victim
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. Peter McWilliams
definitions video used
I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap. Quentin Tarantino
definitions eat-pray-and-love rational
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. Elizabeth Gilbert
definitions might pages
The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one. John Burnside
definitions doe fit
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it? Lilith Saintcrow
definitions modern aids
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. Larry Kramer
definitions mythology one-sentence
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. Joseph Campbell
definitions classification
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
definitions needs israeli
For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions. Hani Furstenberg
definitions decadence
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. Gilbert K. Chesterton
definitions normal why-not
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas? John Baldessari
definitions ashamed adore
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. Jodie Foster
definitions corporations slides
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. Karen Joy Fowler
definitions want kind
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. Maria Shriver
definitions language form
Language is a form of organized stutter. Marshall McLuhan
definitions telling-the-truth politician
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. Michael Kinsley
definitions facts historian
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Marc Bloch
definitions cases welsh
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. Irvine Welsh
definitions looks god-knows
If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules. Julian Assange
definitions
Truth by definition excludes. Ravi Zacharias
definitions orthodoxy open-minded
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. Sheri S. Tepper
definitions conversation planets
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
definitions lost
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand. Mary E. Pearson
definitions purpose missions
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. Peter Drucker
definitions resources enterprise
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
definitions evolution observation
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science. George Gaylord Simpson
definitions gains should
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? Ludwig Wittgenstein
definitions stories ends
Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story. Richelle Mead
definitions understood evident
A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition. Thomas Reid
definitions care take-care
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. Robert Delaunay
definitions hotel
My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at. Robert De Niro
definitions minorities accepting
I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power. Wole Soyinka
definitions earning males
I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. Warren Farrell