Quotes About Definition

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Marriage is what marriage is... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

Truth by definition excludes.

Artificial intelligence is often described as the art and science of "getting machines to do things that would be considered intelligent if done by people." We are coming to a parallel definition of artificial emotion as the art of "getting machines to express things that would be considered feelings if expressed by people.

It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone.

For life to really be meaningful.... you need to start defining it.

Indio... was devoid of any semantic allusion to African heritage and would, thus, accord with their negrophobic definition of Dominicanness.

He stood at a tilt as though tethered to some terrible weight - some moment of his past that simultaneously defined who he was yet denied him life.

The English language was spoken and written—but at the time of Shakespeare it was not defined, not fixed. It was like the air—it was taken for granted, the medium that enveloped and defined all Britons. But as to exactly what it was, what its components were—who knew?

Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist. --Caleb to himself

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its very nature resists definition and plays a role in most relations between people of either and both sexes, whether it is acted upon or not.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.

I tried to go back and talk about what I did know. I told her about one girl he'd brought home from Cornell; I'd asked if she was his girlfriend, and he's said, When you define something, you limit it.

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

Call it what you like.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love.