...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had. — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
TEMPER TANTRUMS: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come? — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis. — B. J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior.… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — George Will Copy Share Image
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.) — Jacqueline Briskin Copy Share Image
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
