Quotes About Definition

I've always been intrigued by questions of perception and identity-building, specifically how teens and young adults define themselves within their communities.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

The Single Market is no-where defined in the E.U. treaties. If you suddenly ask people to define the Single Market, the number who can do that, who are specialists in the area, is pretty small.

All of my definitions of family were heavily influenced by my 'Star Trek' experience.

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.

God may create us but we Define

Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

Whereas Spinoza begins with contestable definitions of substance, attribute and mode, Hegel begins with the utterly indeterminate thought of pure 'being'.

The technical definition of a civil war, according to the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, is a thousand combatant deaths within a year. The definition of civil strife starts at twenty-five deaths within a year. In the United States in 2019, domestic anti-government extremists killed forty-two people; in 2018 they killed fifty-three people; in 2017, thirty-seven; in 2016, seventy-two; and in 2015, seventy.

Webster defined "people" as "persons in general."4 Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) was adopted as the standard by Congress and the American people and became the accepted norm even in England.5 Webster there defined "the people" as "the commonalty, as distinct from men of rank.

Webster defined "keep" in part as: 1. To hold; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose or parr with; as, to keep a house or a farm . . . . 2. To have in custody for security or preservation . . . . 3. To preserve; to retain.8 Webster's following further definition seems particularly apropos to the right to keep arms: "To have in the house

Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments.

Life is the definition you give to events that occur."

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought.

because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.