Definite Quotes

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.