Definition Quotes (282 Quotes)


    My advice in a nutshell is to learn to forgive one another. And keep nurturing the marital friendship as you would any other meaningful friendship. I like to think that the definition of marriage is a lifelong partnership in which you have a consistent witness to the 'stuff' of your life.


    Thirty-eight percent of workers said they feel sick days are equivalent to vacation days. While the definition of a sick day has evolved with more employers including mental health and special circumstances in the description, workers need to be respectful of company policies and their responsibilities as an employee.

    I never tried to kid anybody that I'm some internationalist or something. And when my country is at war, I want my country to win, whatever the definition of 'win' may be. Now, I can't and don't argue that that is coverage without a prejudice. About that I am prejudiced.

    As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.


    The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.


    It's a very loaded term. The actual definition is determined by state governments, who define what taking 'unfair advantage' of a crisis is. Attorneys General monitor these situations closely.


    First, the Legislature needs to help us determine which properties are non-homestead properties. Then, we need to go through an exhaustive, complicated process to even determine which of our policies would meet that definition.

    Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

    The Michigan case is particularly important because it could potentially lead to a definition across the nation about what standards are allowable in terms of society dealing with questions about admissions and race. These are issues that are terribly important to all people in the United States, black and white and all Americans.

    This is a situation in which the vice president by definition is a shadow, ... He must move the way the president moves, he can't move independently and at this point he should move forcefully.





    I was surprised to hear about the level of homelessness, ... My definition is of mentally unstable people living in alleys, but I learned (in Saratoga) a single mother with kids is more typical.






    Since the White Male SystemAddictive System defines itself as reality, everything else is unreal by definition. Since its referent is the external referent, the internal referent is unreal and nonexistent by definition. The process of invalidating that which the system does not know, understand, cannot measure, and cannot thereby control is so extreme that large areas of perception and knowledge are lost. We give the system the power to make the known unknown.



    It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.


    I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.


    Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

    Anyone looking for a definition of the pre-911 world view need look no further than at how leading Republican senators have blocked Democratic efforts improve port security since the 2001 attacks.


    EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word Everlasting, as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.


    One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

    We don't intend to extend settlements, as I have said, and how to stop natural growth is a very difficult definition. I can hardly understand what it is. But I think this is a bridgeable position and I do not believe this should serve as a reason for introducing doubts and the value and the need to do it immediately. I think the alarm clock started to click again and we shouldn't fall asleep.

    We've said this before, and we're happy to say it again we believe this to be a highly important issue. Not in order that one company can be directly compared to another in a 'league table', but to improve understanding of the importance of factors such as 'non-disclosure' and 'meeting the definition'.

    There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.





    That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.

    ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as 'One day a wag what would the wretch be at Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name ...'

    We're finding it harder now to find attractive (energy) deals. It was a great time to buy energy companies when oil prices were 25 a barrel. By definition, it's a harder time to do energy deals.


    There's no promises in terms of playing time or a role. The clear definition was that going into this, like any of the role players, it would not be an everyday situation.

    If you protect children's health, you will almost, by definition, protect adults because children are more vulnerable. If there is a toxin in the air, a child will be exposed to more of that toxin simply because they breathe more pound for pound.




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