Definitions Quotes

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There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom.… — Terry Pratchett
Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition… — Miley Cyrus
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly,… — Tori Spelling
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance… — Kamila Shamsie
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons. — Elizabeth Gilbert
It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday… — Madonna Ciccone
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as… — Rollo May
How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe. — Richelle Mead
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted — Abraham Verghese
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can… — Steig Larsson
Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was… — Deb Caletti
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Soren Kierkegaard
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have… — Stephen Levine
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death… — Irvine Welsh
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the… — Terry Pratchett
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out… — Nelson DeMille
I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people… — Noam Chomsky
I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence. — Lee Child
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is… — Pseudonymous Bosch
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves… — Wendell Berry
The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. — Rick Yancey

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