Definitions Quotes

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

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.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.