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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
-- Aaron Allston -
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
-- Abby Sunderland -
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
-- Abraham Verghese -
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKay -
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
-- Alan Bennett -
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
-- Alan Perlis -
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
-- Alan Rickman -
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp†reality.
-- Alan Watts -
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
-- Alan Watts -
I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
-- Alber Elbaz -
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
-- Albert Brooks -
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
-- Albert Camus -
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
-- Albert Camus -
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
-- Albert Einstein -
For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it
-- Alek Wek -
My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.
-- Alex Meraz -
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
-- Ally Sheedy -
The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
-- Anatol Rapoport -
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
-- Andre Breton -
Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
-- Andre Ward -
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
-- Andrew Bird -
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
-- Andrew Wiles -
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
-- Anne Carson -
A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.
-- Anthony Marra -
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
-- Aristotle -
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
-- Aristotle -
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
-- Arlen Specter -
My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
-- Art Spiegelman -
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
-- Asa Gray -
To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
-- B. J. Palmer -
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
-- Bell Hooks -
Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
-- Bell Hooks -
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
-- Ben Okri -
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
-- Benjamin Tucker -
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
-- Bill Gaede -
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
-- Bill Hybels -
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
-- Bill Joy -
The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.
-- Bill Whittle -
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
-- Billy Graham -
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
-- Black Francis -
You’ll come with us,†she said. “Sure,†Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.†“Yes it was,†Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
-- Brent Weeks -
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.
-- Brian Aldiss -
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
-- Brit Marling -
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
-- Bruno Latour -
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
-- Caleb Carr -
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
-- Carl Magnusson -
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
-- Caroline Myss -
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.
-- Charles Wang -
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
-- Che Guevara -
Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
-- Cheri Huber -
[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.
-- Cheris Kramarae -
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
-- Christopher Hampton -
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
-- Chuck Hagel -
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
-- Claire Messud -
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
-- Clay Shirky -
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
-- Clyde Edgerton -
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.
-- Colin McGinn -
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
-- Confucius -
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
-- Craig Shirley -
A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.
-- Crispin Glover -
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
-- Criss Jami -
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
-- Dan Brown -
Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.
-- Dan Rather -
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
-- Daniel Kahneman
