Definitively Quotes

#1. I am definitively not a 'universalist'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#2. Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.

Damon Lindelof

#3. Weber's achievement was not to definitively answer a riddle but to stake out a territory fertile of new puzzles at the heart of which is the claim that religious forces, not simply economic ones, paved the way for the mentality characteristic of modern, Western capitalism.

Max Weber

#4. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments - a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason.

Albert Camus

#5. Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.

David Morrell

#6. The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed 'icky.'

Patrick Howley

#7. Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

Milan Kundera

#8. I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

Peter DeFazio

#9. I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Jon Meacham

#10. I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#11. It had been, in other words, our family home, and I had stayed to watch it become the grave of something I could no longer definitively call either a reality or an illusion.

Rachel Cusk

#12. The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government. Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated ...

Michel Foucault

#13. You will be my first, will definitively be my last, perpetually my everything.

Darlene

#14. Which is to say: a city boy, definitively. He knew exactly which spot on which subway platform corresponded with which staircase on which other platform.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#15. It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

Charles Duhigg

#16. In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

Ismail Haniyeh

#17. He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

Thomas Bernhard

#18. Have you ever felt love?
Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

Derrick Jensen

#19. Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

Stephen Colbert

#20. The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

Rob Bell

#21. My personal opinion ... is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

Hans Wilsdorf

#22. We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Michel Faber

#24. By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.

Simone De Beauvoir

#25. People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Terry Pratchett

#26. But once Rausch was definitively gone for the day, the office transformed itself as instantaneously as a pumpkin into a carriage. Music

Hanya Yanagihara

#27. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

Garry Kasparov

#28. I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon

#29. I am definitively qualitative about work.

Rashida Jones

#30. I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Jesse James Garrett

#31. The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

#32. No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a matter of appearing to be stupid and heartless; instead I confirm to myself that I am definitively one or the other.

Heidi Julavits

#33. What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

Donald Tusk

#34. When I say something, this thing immediately and definitively loses its importance. When I write it down, it also loses it, but sometimes gains another importance.

Franz Kafka

#35. There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

Allen Frances

#36. As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Rudolf Hiferding

#37. Reality is inelegant," Phillip huffed. "No," Martin said definitively. "Reality is stunningly elegant. Our understanding of it is not.

Scott Meyer

#38. I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

Marc Maron

#39. It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Stanley Fish

#40. Subtly but definitively? Isn't that an oxymoron, you moron?

Lauren Gallagher

#41. Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#42. Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'

Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

John Boyne