Quotes About Definition

Ésa es una de las cosas que no podemos decidir: cómo van a llamarnos los demás. Solamente sabemos cómo vamos a llamarnos a nosotros mismos.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Change in both the generations is there as society changed. But love is love, the definition of love has not changed.

Good eyebrows give your face definition.

I always thought 'Into The Gloss' would be successful, but I didn't really know what my definition of success was.

All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

If you look at any film fest, the setting gives it colour. Be it Goa, Cannes or even Berlin in the winter, the setting makes these festivals special and gives it a definition.

I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Companies with significant revenue (more than $100 million) have, by definition, significant traction. They have proven out their thesis and can scale up or down as investment capital becomes available.

Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.