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Quotes About Definitive

The short answer is 'No.' The long answer is 'Hell No.'
~ Unknown
It is not unusual to make a single work the opportunity for passing definitive judgment upon an author. This is not our view of the duty of a critic. He is limited to the book before him, and all departures from it are impertinences.
~ Unknown
What are you doing?' 'What the fuck does it look like I'm doing? Hammering a pencil into Anton's brain with a copy of Birds of the North Sea.' 'Is that good?' 'Definitive, according to the Observer.
~ Unknown
Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.
~ Unknown
The most influential is his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.76 To this day, Story's Commentaries stands as a definitive source for understanding the Constitution from an originalist perspective. The
~ Unknown
If one completely eliminates the concept of the end of history, then the concept of revolution is relativized; such is the meaning of "permanent revolution." It means that there is no definitive regime, that revolution is the regime of creative imbalance that there will always be other oppositions to sublate, that there must therefore always be an opposition within revolution.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
la vie se caractérise par de longues plages d'ennui confus, elle est le plus souvent singulièrement morne; puis tout à coup une bifurcation apparaît, et cette bifurcation s'avère definitive.
~ Michel Houellebecq
You know the magazine I work for: all we're trying to do is create an artificial mankind, a frivolous one that will no longer be open to seriousness or to humor, which, until it dies, will engage in an increasingly desperate quest for fun and sex; a generation of definitive kids. We are going to succeed, of course; and, in that world, you will no longer have your place.
~ Michel Houellebecq
un mundo de kids definitivos.
~ Michel Houellebecq
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Each one of a science's successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to the disciple.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
For all brain tumors, definitive diagnosis can only be made by surgery with pathological examination of tissue. MRI or CT scans or other images may suggest the tumor type, but they are not definitive.
~ Unknown
While funerals are among the saddest events that we humans can participate in, at least they are definitive moments marking change: from living to dead. But perhaps even sadder is the life near its end, such as a human with a fatal malady given a highly definitive death sentence.
~ Unknown