Definition Quotes

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I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean… — Mira Grant
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;… — Andrew Sullivan
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work… — Pierre Bourdieu
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.… — Joan Didion
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which… — Leo Buscaglia
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the… — George Orwell
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition… — Alan Watts
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. — Khalil Gibran
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief… — John Taylor Gatto
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To… — Tana French
You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts,… — David Levithan
Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are… — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the… — Robert Penn Warren
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more… — Stephen Covey
I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be… — Nikolas Schreck
Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by… — Jodi Picoult
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk… — Andrea Dworkin
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty. — Justina Chen
Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong… — Kiersten White
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the… — Sam Harris
It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of… — James A. Baldwin
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. — Albert Einstein

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