Definitions Quotes - Page 13

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own mind, is called mantra.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.