Quotes and Sayings About Definitions
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
-- Milan Kundera -
One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
-- Mircea Eliade -
Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.
-- Monique Wittig -
...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.
-- Montel Williams -
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.
-- Muhammad Yunus -
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 -
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
-- Nathanael Emmons -
My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
-- Ned Rorem -
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
-- Neil Postman -
I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.
-- Nelson DeMille -
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.
-- Nick Hornby -
I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
-- Nikolas Schreck -
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
-- Noam Chomsky -
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
-- Noam Chomsky -
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
-- Norman Cousins -
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
-- Norman Macbeth -
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
-- Norman Spinrad -
People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
-- Oliver Heaviside -
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
-- P. J. Plauger -
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
-- Paola Antonelli -
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
-- Pat Barker -
My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].
-- Paul Giamatti -
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
-- Paula Fox -
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
-- Paula Poundstone
