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Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.
— Jeff Bridges
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
— Octavia Butler
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
There is no rigorous definition of rigor.
— Morris Kline
Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
— Israelmore Ayivor
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
— Esther Dyson
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
— Hillary Clinton
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
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
Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers' definitions of respectable labor and amusement
— LaShawn Harris
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
— J. Philippe Rushton
My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.
— Kinky Friedman
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
Humor is the observation of an unprejudiced heart
— Marsha Boulton
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James Baldwin
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?
— Ellen Kushner
Art, n. This word has no definition.
— Ambrose Bierce
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
— Edward Snowden
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
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
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
— Gerry Spence
All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Definitions only belong to those who need them.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action.
— Rene Daumal
What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
— Charlie Munger
I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.
— Ed Seykota
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
— Kenny Werner
I done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions — Ntozake Shange
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
AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius
— Michael Vaughan
That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
— Tod Machover
All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A
— Julian Barnes
By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
— R.C. Sproul
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.
— George W. Bush
The definition of success is total preparation.
— George Allen
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
— Wallace Stevens
My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.
— Lamar Hunt
The definition of love is giving.
— Bai Ling
Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.
— Jack Harlan
The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.
— Monica Esposito
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
— Sharon Gannon
You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.
— Jesse Ventura
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
— Jessica Valenti
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
— George Bernard Shaw
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
— R.C. Sproul
The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.
— Demetri Martin
Life, by definition, is never still.
— Kurt Vonnegut
One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
— Anthony Kiedis
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
— Camille Paglia
All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterdaythat is, not innovating
is far more risky than making tomorrow. — Peter Drucker
High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.
— Doug Stanhope
In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.
— John D'Agata
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
— Kelly McGonigal
A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.
— Mark R. Woodward
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H.G.Wells
By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
— Silvio Berlusconi
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
There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
— Dinaw Mengestu
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
— Jonathan Lethem
All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
— Donald C. Peattie
The word 'tight' has twenty-two definitions, but my favorite is Webster's fifth - "a bond which cannot be broken.
— Alessandra Torre
An intelligent adult often feels it is demeaning to pay attention to simplistic definitions.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
My definition of God is: the ever-present essence of love.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
— M. Scott Peck
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
— Nathanael Emmons
People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.
— Nouman Ali Khan
All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.
— Bryant McGill
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
— Fernando J. Corbato
I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.
— Dov Davidoff
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
— John Spence
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
— Hal Duncan
