Definitions Quotes - Page 11

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.