Definitions Quotes
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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.
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
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.
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
