Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then… — Don Scardino Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down… — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel. — Sharon Tate Copy Share Image
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition… — Marianne O. Battani Copy Share Image
Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love,… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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