Quotes About Definition

In order to describe and explore these questions I needed 1) to examine the definition of paradise, 2) to delve into the power of colorism, 3) to dramatize the conflict between patriarchy and matriarchy, and 4) disrupt racial discourse altogether by signaling then erasing it.

Only God gets to define Himself. And only God gets to reveal who He is and how He operates in history. He is who He is, not who you say He is.

Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.

right now we don't actually have a clear definition of what kind of beings we are.

Plagiarism is a crime of its first known definition, now lost and stolen.

Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?

How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things said and unsaid, and now her marriage was being undermined by silence.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

The modern self assumes the authority of inner feelings and sees authenticity as defined by the ability to give social expression to the same.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

A thing without a name has no substance. If it existed, it would have a name. And, likewise, if you give a thing a name, somewhere, on some level, the thing named will exist, will come to be.

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

The way we define a social problem will affect the way we conceive of its solution. If we have an incomplete definition of a problem, then we will envision a limited solution. If the real problem is larger than our restricted definition, then our solution will be insufficient.

More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

The name of a thing is not the thing.

I don't know what humor is.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."