Quotes and Sayings About Definitions
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These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
-- Francis Chan -
There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.
-- Frank Dobson -
You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.
-- Frank Mir -
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.
-- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell -
My definition of God is: the ever-present essence of love.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
-- Gabrielle Union -
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 -
On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.
-- Gavin Rossdale -
Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.
-- Gene Spafford -
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
-- Gene Wolfe -
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.
-- George Gaylord Simpson -
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
-- George Tenet -
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.
-- Georges Bernanos -
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
-- Georges Braque -
A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman -
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-- Gerry Spence -
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
-- Gertrude Stein -
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
-- Gijs de Vries -
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
-- Gilbert Adair -
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
-- Gilbert Murray -
When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.
-- Gina Bellman -
Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.
-- Gina Lollobrigida -
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
-- Gina McKee -
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
-- Glen Duncan -
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
-- Glenn Greenwald -
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
-- Glenn Greenwald
