Definitions Quotes

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word "human" is "sympathetic." More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

What's the definition of a good flame? One you agree with.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.