Definitions Quotes - Page 20

Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.

... life, by definition, is never still.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.