Top 100 The Definition Of Quotes
#1. The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.
Gloria Feldt
#2. The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Seth Godin
#3. Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#4. The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#5. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality ...
Rick Santorum
#6. Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Art Spiegelman
#7. That was the definition of management - getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.
John Elder Robison
#8. If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
John Hodgman
#9. Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
Scott Adams
#10. If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
Gary Bauer
#11. Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.
Bertrand Russell
#12. Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.
Neale Donald Walsch
#13. I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.
Sarah Morgan
#14. The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren Kierkegaard
#15. Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.
David Salle
#16. The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.
Mike Tyson
#17. The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
#18. I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.
Dov Davidoff
#19. The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
Jay McInerney
#20. The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
Thomas Hoving
#21. The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback
#22. She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply!
Avijeet Das
#23. The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
Allan Bloom
#24. What is the definition of "love"? Jesus answered that by depicting a man meeting material, physical, and economic needs through deeds. Caring for people's material and economic needs is not an option for Jesus. He refused to allow the law expert to limit the implications of this command to love.
Timothy J. Keller
#25. Oh God, Oh God we're all gonna die doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
Lilith Saintcrow
#26. Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Lynn Coady
#27. In light of this, I say that the definition of a cyclist needs a qualifier, and that it should be: (1) a person who rides a bicycle even when he or she doesn't have to; (2) a person who values the act of riding a bicycle over the tools one needs in order to do it.
BikeSnobNYC
#28. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Glenn Greenwald
#30. If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.
Narendra Modi
#31. What was the definition of insanity? Repeating the same action and expecting different results?
Kathy Reichs
#32. What's the definition of a good flame? One you agree with ...
Karl Lehenbauer
#33. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day
#34. They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
David Mamet
#35. The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions
Bill Hicks
#36. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.
Michael Ruse
#37. I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.
Gary Bauer
#38. Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy
#39. Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
Marco Rubio
#40. I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price
#41. I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Elizabeth Emken
#42. I think the definition of a book is changing.
Jeff Bezos
#43. I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
Kristen Stewart
#44. The definition of the future is today
ABC
#45. Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
Bruce Robinson
#46. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#47. It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
William Manchester
#48. I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
Frederick Lenz
#49. That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
Tod Machover
#50. But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.
Tim Worstall
#51. Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
Pete Seeger
#52. There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski
#53. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.
Sayed Mahdi Modarresi
#54. The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.
Toni Morrison
#55. The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#56. The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Maya Lin
#57. The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.
Jim C. Hines
#58. There's no other way to look at you. You're the definition of beauty.
Cristin Harber
#59. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
James Cook
#60. The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.
James Rozoff
#61. Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#63. Creating conflicts and killing each other to be in accord with our only Creator should be the definition of insanity.
By promoting divisions and hostility among men, all monotheisms have proven that they are nothing but banal manners of clan formation.
Haroutioun Bochnakian
#64. It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede
#65. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#66. Wasn't that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted to do the right and the good more than you wanted to do what you wanted.
Orson Scott Card
#67. He had a way of coaxing me to greater and greater heights, promising a burst of exhilaration as long as I could bear the fear. It felt like the definition of true love. And I didn't see how I could ever find it again.
Norman Ollestad
#68. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.
Irene Tomkinson
#69. The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. Check any dictionary in Hell and under the definition of attention whore was an image of her boss. If
Eve Langlais
#72. I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.
Cody Johnson
#74. I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica Jong
#75. I'm pretty much the definition of an American Hero.
A.D. Aliwat
#76. Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
#77. Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you."
"And that's the definition of a real friend?"
"Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.
Alexandra Bracken
#78. The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
Rachel Bloom
#79. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
#80. The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago ...
Thomas Hoving
#81. The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#82. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.
Paula Scher
#83. The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.
Paul Begala
#85. The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#86. There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Philip Hammond
#87. There can be no bravery without fear. The soul's triumphant fight over what's most feared is the definition of courage.
Patricia A. Knight
#88. Is it ignorance if you don't care to know it?" "Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#89. The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Sloan Wilson
#90. You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.
Sarah Pekkanen
#91. Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.
Richard Dawkins
#92. What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Robert D. Hales
#93. Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
Narendra Modi
#94. I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
Josie Loren
#95. October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
Trey Gowdy
#96. How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.
Richelle Mead
#97. There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?
Meghan Daum
#98. John F. Kennedy once said: 'The definition of happiness is the full use of your powers, along the lines of excellence.
Robin S. Sharma
#99. I watch the man place the collar on Tuck and tighten it so much that I worry he's not getting enough oxygen. But if that's the case, Tuck doesn't let on. He keeps a straight face. No anger, no sorrow, no fear. The definition of Tuck.
Kaitlyn Deann
