Quotes About Definition

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

I didn't see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn't make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it's art, that's great, but I'll let history decide.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

You narrow hope when you define it.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.

Emma Harrison, Phoebe Who?

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

Ish #21 "Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.