Definitions Quotes - Page 29

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.