To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy.
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.
If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
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.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Democrats' definition of 'rich' - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.
