Definition Quotes

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

My definition of success is control.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.