Quotes About Definition

Hooker was falsely thought to be the origin of the word for "prostitute," because his camp was so rowdy.

the definition of being brave. That if you weren't scared, then there was no courage in the act.

Joylyn was pretty sure that was the definition of being brave. That if you weren't scared, then there was no courage in the act.

Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer deparado por una foto de un hecho inesperado que capta a mitad de la acción un fotógrafo alerta.

For Valéry, the nature of beauty is that it cannot be defined; beauty is precisely "the ineffable.

Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

La felicidad es un concepto incoercible.Huye a toda concreción. Cada cual la perfila conforma a su perspicacia o la define de acuerdo a sus aspiraciones. Pero nadie acierta." Caterva, p.29

Do you dream of your victims?" he asked. "Yes," the murderer told him. "But only when I'm awake." Anzola had never heard a more perfect definition of guilt, and didn't ask him anything else on the subject.

definitions demand reduction, and reduction demands going to a lower rung.

Happy!" She looks at him. "Oh, Ward! You give us all the definition, will you? But first you'd better check on those kids. Every day, to make sure they're good and safe, that

to lure friends by offering them hospitality—the defining characteristic of which is generosity—when one is collecting money for their presence and their buying power is a scam.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

We're so used to seeing women in movies about a romance where they don't seem to have any inner fortitude. They're completely defined by their relationships, and it's hard to engage with those characters and relate to them.

I wanted to see how much of an insult it was to be called an ignoramus. I didn't know what it meant; I just Googled it.

It's when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear. In

So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Fuller's procedural categories provide an inadequate definition of the rule of law. A legal regime might offer generality, publicity, clarity, consistency, constancy over time, and congruency with regulators, and still be a legal system from Hell. It might weaken property rights and impose civil liability on the flimsiest of grounds, all the while conforming to Fuller's idea of law.

The question of boundaries is the first to be encountered; from it all others flow. To draw a boundary around anything is to define, analyze, and reconstruct it, in this case, select, indeed adopt, a philosophy of history.

I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word "Government." What an immense service it would confer on society!