Quotes About Definition

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.

Our definition of VIP is not as big as in Macau. But for us, they are VIPs even if they don't spend a lot because we are very hospitable here.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state.

The real difficulty lies in the relation in which the persons in the Godhead stand to the divine essence and to one another; and this is a difficulty which the Church cannot remove, but only try to reduce to its proper proportion by a proper definition of terms. It has never tried to explain the mystery of the Trinity, but only sought to formulate the doctrine of the Trinity in such a manner that the errors which endangered it were warded off.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All

Sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.

Siempre fui un nadie bien definido cuya mayor ansia fue ser un alguien indefinido.

Your children are the most precious gift, prime example of perfection, and clearly an accurate definition of pure; unconditional love.

Since I met you, I cant stop thinking of you. You healed a broken heart, a broken smile. You wiped my tears, and wiped that sadness inside. Love was just a word...until you came in, and gave it a definition.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Kiddush ha-Shem, the principle of service to God, acquired a new definition in the Ghetto, where it became the struggle to preserve life in the face of destruction.

Try to remember that, by definition, an estimate is always wrong (two months equals two years in dog days), and that cost quickens with time. Expense is a river whose rapids never rest.

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

Are you people telling me," Babette said, "that a rat is not only a vermin and a rodent but a mammal too?