Definite Quotes

423 Definite quotes by 340 unique authors

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.… — Edward Abbey
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite… — Fritjof Capra
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to… — William S. Burroughs
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war… — Tim O'Brien
Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This… — Carl Jung
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular… — Gregory Maguire
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. — Sam Shepard
In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. — Harper Lee
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in… — Zadie Smith
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general… — Charlotte Bronte
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two… — Joseph Heller
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at… — Ayn Rand
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation… — Winston Churchill
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. — Oscar Wilde
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made… — Edith Wharton
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way… — Terry Pratchett
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked,… — Garth Nix
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.… — Oscar Wilde

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