Quotes About Definition

Aprendió los caminos de Dios y cuál era su definición del éxito. Aprendió que es mejor ser alguien a los ojos de Dios y nadie a los ojos del mundo, que ser alguien a los ojos de

BUCK: Can you give a definition of an orator? PRIVATE: Sure. He's a fellow that's always ready to lay down your life for his country.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

He left a quote I need—" "A quotation, Mr. Marlow. 'Quote' is a verb. 'Quotation' is a noun.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

The term stress has effectively become an umbrella concept, which gives us permission to call any kind of discomfort that we don't know how to define in other terms stress, be it physical, emotional or mental. Pretty much everything can become stress, or stressful, without any further evidence being presented.

both spiritual teachers and preachers fall into the trap of using imprecise, emotional mumbo jumbo—if you can't define it or explain it, then it's mumbo jumbo—to connect with an audience. The audience reads into it what they want, and it makes for good theater.

Names are not the things they name. Classes are not coextensive with subclasses.

Hidden far away deep within you is the definition of your life that defines who you are.

It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything.

Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...

Unsheathe your dagger definitions.

In the past, we could define an individual as that which lies within the skin, but it is a fact of physics that energy fields are unbounded. The

was the kind of evening that people of my generation associate with a more predictable era, one that may have been unjust in many ways but possessed a far greater level of civility and trust and shared sense of virtue that, for good or bad, seemed to define who we were. It

I stared at the symbol, the chimera, the bile roiling in my gut. "Not this time." "I haven't run with it," Cindy said. "But it's out there. Everybody thinks these murders are connected. This symbol is the key, right? Let me give you a second definition I found: 'a grotesque product of the imagination.' That fits, right?

I think we just have to be mindful of what that definition of an American dream is. I think we are faced with a lot of definitions of that that are, frankly, unhealthy.

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.