Definitions Quotes · Page 4

There isn't a formal definition of success.

— Ernest Sosa

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

— Gijs de Vries

art, n. This word has no definition.

— Ambrose Bierce

Wit is educated insolence.

— Aristotle

... life, by definition, is never still.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Unsheathe your dagger definitions.”

— James Joyce

The definition of success is total preparation.

— George Allen

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

— Dorothy Parker

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

— Bill Gaede

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

— La Monte Young

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

— Paula White

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

— Chogyam Trungpa

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your…

— Barack Obama

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

— Gina McKee

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film…

— John Dykstra

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

— Zig Ziglar

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

— Ron Paul

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to…

— Eva Figes

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

— George Eliot

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has…

— Monique Wittig

Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a…

— David R. Hawkins

The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is…

— Edward Said

The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and…

— Mona Hatoum

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological…

— Bernard Nathanson

I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In…

— Austin Grossman

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then…

— Anton Yelchin

The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly."…

— T. Harv Eker

When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in…

— Gangaji

So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial…

— Michael Emerson

I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just…

— Richelle Mead

I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask…

— Bill Maher

It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my…

— Anonymous