Quotes About Definition

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

Only the victor had the potential of transcending an earlier opposition between the two, by defining both as survivors of the civil war. To transcend the terms of the earlier opposition is to forge a new community of survivors of the civil war.

The definition of a thing includes its efficient cause; and since God is the Primal Cause, He cannot be defined, or described by a partial definition. A quality, whether psychical, physical, emotional, or quantitative, is always regarded as something distinct from its substratum;

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

You must name a thing before you can note it on your hand drawn map.

Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine.

The assurance from the dictionary had melted in the night.

Our listeners asked us: What is chaos? We're answering: We do not comment on economic policy.

There are all different kinds of ways to define a family, and we have to take that into consideration when practicing family law. The law, they say, is always the last thing to change.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

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

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.