Quotes About Definition

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks.

The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. She

Apathy is just a lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence. So the energy gives out in a society - that is decadence.

I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I confess a weakness for improvised definitions), history is that impossible thing: the attempt to give an account with incomplete knowledge, of actions themselves undertaken with incomplete knowledge.

When something's one thing, it's not another.

For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound, the baby shoes dipped in bronze, the taint in the blood stream. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. —Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

No, really, I'm fine. Come on, you're always defining everything for me. We were talking about suffering tonight, and I'm interested to know, what do you think about it?' 'Is easy—suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that.' 'Yes, I guess everybody does. Good night, Prabu.' 'Good night, Lin.

His was the definition that stayed with me.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

We try to do everything that we can to make Christ the center of attention. Our goal is to kind of broaden the definition of worship. I know that God has always used us as a forefront for people to draw closer to Him and get into His presence.

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

The main trick is to define the four-velocity as a derivative with respect to the proper time Ï" along the trajectory, rather than with respect to the coordinate time t. We write the

Philosophers wrestling with the big questions of life are no longer alone. Now scientists are struggling to define life as they manipulate it, look for it on other planets, and even create it in test tubes.

If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.

If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." "Sure