Definition Quotes
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
Rush Limbaugh
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc Bloch
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
Warren Beatty
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.
Jimmy Kimmel
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
John le Carre