Quotes and Sayings About Definitions
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
-- Reverend Malcolm Boyd -
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
-- Reza Aslan -
My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.
-- Riccardo Tisci -
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
-- Richard K. Morgan -
Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".
-- Richard Summerbell -
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.
-- Richard Whately -
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.
-- Richard Yates -
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
-- Rita Dove -
I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
-- Robert Boswell -
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-- Robert Breault -
The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.
-- Robert Bridges -
Embryonic cells, by their very definition, are not from your body. Right now, inside your body, you have everything necessary to build what you need now.
-- Robert Clark -
My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.
-- Robert De Niro -
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
-- Robert Delaunay -
Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
-- Robert Fripp -
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
-- Robert Harris -
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
-- Robert Hayden -
In separateness only does love learn definition.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
-- Russell Lynes -
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
-- RZA -
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
-- S. I. Hayakawa -
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.
-- Sally Kohn -
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
-- Sandy Koufax -
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
-- Sarah Dessen -
The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
-- Sarah Jio -
I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.
-- Sarah Shahi -
The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
-- Sarah Vowell -
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
-- Saul Williams
