Definitions Quotes

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

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.

A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.