Quotes About Definition

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

I hold it to be impracticable"4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.

Sin definicion, se da lugar a la ambiguedad. La mayoria de las iglesias es ambigua en cuanto a su proceso ministerial, o porque no tienen uno o porque esta apenas definido. Y donde existe la ambiguedad, con frecuencia hay confusion.

Objection 3: According to the Philosopher (Metaph. iv), the meaning of a word is its definition. But the definition of "person" is this: "The individual substance of the rational nature," as above stated. Therefore "person" signifies substance.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world.

Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.

I love the light-brown shadow I made with Colourpop. It's a nice matte and neutral color that gives a bit of definition on the lids.

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

NASA 'working definition' of life, for example: life is 'a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution'.

It also noted that the test for reasonableness … "is not capable of precise definition or mechanical application," and therefore the test's "proper application requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case.

I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much….if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

You can't have the United States opposing the peace process, because the peace process is what the United States is doing, by definition. And if anybody is opposing the United States, then they're opposing the peace process.

It's easier to know what you're not than what you are.