Definitions Quotes - Page 35

• Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

  Paula Fox

  Iron, Break

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• But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

  Derrick Jensen

  Spring, Mean, Agency

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

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• PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.

  Chalene Johnson

  Giving, Weight, Body

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• There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Biblical, Contemplative

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• Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

  Ron Smothermon

  Love Is, Fundamentals, Universe

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• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Purple, Tree

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• A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

  Cab Calloway

  Phoenix

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• If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.

  Flavor Flav

  Mean, Dope, Enemy

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• I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Swings, Years, Long

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• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  Felicity Huffman

  Views, Issues, Support

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

  Mark Donohue

  Gears, Four, Too Much

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• I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Support, Clear, Traditional

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• The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

  Albert Einstein

  Different, Action, Madness

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• By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Order, Narrators

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• Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Balance, Week, Hours

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• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

  Bruno Latour

  Would Be, World, Common

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• The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Texas, Insanity, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

  Michael Cunningham

  Healing, Writing, Optimistic

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• I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

  Jo Nesbo

  Thinking, One Day, Miserable

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• Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.

  David Guterson

  Fun, Writing, Mean

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• Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

  Richard Neal

  Father, Kids, Honor

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• To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

  Thomas Sowell

  Democracy, Characteristics, Process

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• The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.

  Steve Rubel

  Funny, Thoughtful, Names

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• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Ions, Giving, Water

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