Quotes About Definition

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

It depends on what your definition of 'is' is," he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not only at the ridiculousness of the statement, but at the tenacity and toughness of a true Machiavelli who would not, could not, let his enemies use their version of the truth to defeat him.

This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

Paul Fussell, in his book Wartime, has the best definition:

If you like, you can say that the laws [of nature] are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

Definition is a choice.

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Some mistakes...just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.

Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you

Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you." I

Some mistakes ... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.

Roles lack two essential ingredients: flexibility and honesty. In trying to define natural femininity, it's really important that we don't make it a role; it must be about something we are, not merely what we act like.

Mi spieghi, per favore, cosa intende per razza. Perché per me è un concetto scientificamente indefinibile e quindi privo di valore teorico.

It is a glorious challenge and and the experience is intensely meaningful and rewarding, but happy? Not as such. The deeper point is that children make your life heavier in a way that is experienced by most people as good. Children give your life depth and definition and responsibility.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

Is thyselves even a word?

London, at the same time, Isaac Deutscher distinguished between 'heretics' and 'renegades' (communists who became anti-Stalinist and those who became anti-communist), in a definition that sought not to cast anathemas but rather to describe a psychological attitude and a mental habitus.

The hasOwnProperty method returns true if a property is defined in an object instance. If it's not, but you can access that property, then you can assume the property must be defined in the object's prototype.