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Quotes About Definition

In proclamation, one defines his enemy for his enemy".
~ Steven Erikson
Pi is fundamentally a child of calculus. It is defined as the unattainable limit of a never-ending process.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
For those who care deeply about Zen and its place in Japan and the world, the challenge is to help define Zen's role creatively lest the tradition get buried under the avalanche of criticism.
~ Steven Heine
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.
~ Steven Wright
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
~ Stockwell Day
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
~ Stokely Carmichael
The entire modern Republican definition of the conservative movement is about efforts to define itself as "normal" and everything else as "not normal.
~ Stuart Stevens
Naw, girl. I mean nekkid." Kelsey looked at both of us in mock disgust before explaining. "Naked is when you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid is when you don't have any clothes on and you're up to no good.
~ Sue Ann Jaffarian
Books are big enough and powerful enough to define and contain identity.--Aaron Lansky
~ Sue Macy
A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.
~ Suketu Mehta
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
~ Ron Paul
People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!
~ Saikat Chakrabarti
Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil to outline the brows and give them more definition. To soften edges, comb color through with the spooley end.
~ Anastasia Soare
Han Solo has always been - and I think for a lot of people, too - this iconic character who's the absolute definition of cool.
~ Marjorie Liu
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
~ Shervin Pishevar
Only pain can define the meaning of tears.
~ Munia Khan
Love don't have definition .It was just as it was since the world was created. People are just trying to explain it in vain.
~ Bikash Bhandari
you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist thereafter, and its existence will be clearly perceived. The name enables me to see it. I can call it by its name, and I can see it for what it is.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
~ Naomi Wolf
I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This is not to say that there is a clear line of demarcation between the living and the non-living. For the ancients, mould and mildew were not clearly differentiated from rust; from our perspective, prions and viruses are also indeterminate. They can reproduce their kind and they employ resources from their hosts to do so, but they do not have life cycles as plants and animals do.
~ Catherine Wilson
DOOKU: The past does not define you, Ventress. The future does not define you. I define you.
~ Cavan Scott
I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.
~ Cecelia Ahern