Quotes About Definition

It's still hard for me to imagine that these gentle people have broken over a thousand years of neutrality in a warning against all of our kind. They seemed so proud of their benevolent history, so psychologically dependent upon a secular and kindly definition of themselves.

The great thing about alpha was that it could be explained:

Doug needs to leave for a very simple reason. He's been branded. Everyone at the company has an expectation of who Doug is and what he can do.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

Aren't all crimes, by definition, hate crimes? I mean, people don't rob banks because they love tellers.

Am I the only human on board this ship?" To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human.

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

I suggest that we must be defined not by our salvation but by our faith. The "Lordship Salvation" debate is frustrating because sometimes proponents on both sides make it sound as if "salvation" is the reason for our faith.43 That cannot be right. Salvation is a benefit of our faith gained by the grace of God; God is the reason for our faith.

Incarnation' does not originally mean (as it tends to today in some theologies of history, and in some kinds of Anglican today) that God took all of human nature as it was, put his seal of approval on it and thereby ratified nature as revelation. The point is just the opposite; that God broke through the borders of man's definition of what is human, and gave a new, formative definition in Jesus.

Funny how one little word can mean 'full of or disposed to joy and mirth', 'homosexual' and 'rubbish'. It just shows that context is everything.

A running theme in the book is that how we define racial and ethnic groups, along with changing patterns of identification in the U.S. population, affects our understanding of racial and ethnic inequality.

The computer is very good at solving the problem we have specified and asked it to solve, but less useful when we are not quite sure what the problem is.

Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.

So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.11

So, depending on the situation, one can define blues in emotional, musical, cultural, or commercial terms, and these definitions overlap at times and diverge at others.

Interesting, isn't it, that each one of those definitions contains the word money," he says. "Throughput is the money coming in. Inventory is the money currently inside the system. And operational expense is the money we have to pay out to make throughput happen. One measurement for the incoming money, one for the money still stuck inside, and one for the money going out.

a measurement not clearly defined is worse than useless.

Be careful what you name a thing.