450 Quotes About Definitions

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

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.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.