The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt. — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity. — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching. — Gwyn Morgan Copy Share Image
Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have… — Lois Gould Copy Share Image
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars… — Dick Ebersol Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Most Christians are more than content to live out their lives surrounded by the trappings of our world, rather than to risk… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth — William James Copy Share Image
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