I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be:… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body. — Chalene Johnson Copy Share Image
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb."… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves. — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition;… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm? — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
