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

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Men Inspirational Loses Humorous Anger Definitions Worthy Producers Martial Arts Temper Steel Bad Ass Screenwriters Worthiness Anger Management

Book:The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

Source: The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

“We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.”

Humans Mean Humanity Human Beings Fiction Definitions Fallen Description Naturalism Very Mean

Author:Ben Okri

“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”

Ifs Knows Men War Fear Quality Bravery Intelligent Brave Definitions Accepted Frightened Longevity Be Brave No Fear Brave Man Have No Fear Fear No Man

Author:George S. Patton

“Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.”

People Social Liberty Marriage Judging Definitions Officials Engineering Hostile Bureaucrats Congressman Social Engineering

Author:Ron Paul

“Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.”

I Can Growing Risk Definitions Pregnancy Twins High Risk

Author:Jane Pauley

“My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.”

People Done Jobs Definitions Executives Things Done Getting Things Done

Author:James Cash Penney

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”

“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.”

Knows Should Conscious Definitions Unconscious Psychoanalysis Analysts

Book:The Dean's December

Source: The Dean's December

“My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.”

Art Light Wanted Parent Definitions Pops Artistic Candle

Author:Iggy Pop

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

Men Madness Definitions Pounds Lunatic

Author:Ezra Pound

“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”

Important Age Order Taken Example Demand Important Things Definitions Defined Statistics Things In Life Metaphysics Decency Measurement

Book:Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

Source: Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”

Thinking Book Definitions Classic

Book:The wind in the willows

Source: The wind in the willows

“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”

Men Faith Literature Religious Definitions Witty

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.”

Want Firsts Wells States Law United United States Tradition Constitution Definitions Conservative Debate Constitution Of The United States Above The Law American Tradition

Author:Dan Rather

“Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.”

Values Produce Politician Tables Definitions Bread Jealous Inability Limbs Inferiority Menace Vengeful Insolent

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“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.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.”

Wish Marriage Gay Prejudice Majority Definitions Like Me Traditional Preserves Intolerance Bias

Author:Mitt Romney

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”

Men Two Political Walks Democrat Definitions Conservative Legs Clever Imperfect Conservatism Funny Political Perfectly Good Walking Backwards Conservative Political Walking Forward

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”

Political Politics Century Definitions Conservative Admire Radical Anti Conservative

Author:Leo Rosten

“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.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Might Able Definitions Philosopher Infinity Illuminating

Book:Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“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.”

Inspirational May Reason Past Memories Wise Strive Definitions Hard Times Our Past Your Past Something Better Loving Life Criminal Mind

Book:Standing by Words

Source: Standing by Words

“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.”

Care Wealth Plans Definitions Health Care Excellent Fortunate Civilized Healthcare Humane Funding Equitable Less Fortunate

Author:Donald Berwick

“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.”

Sin Knowing Definitions

Book:THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

“That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

Way Stories Seems Novel Definitions

Author:George Saunders

“For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.”

Firsts Littles Art I Can Would Be Three Games Bits Reader Pages Ears Intelligent Assuming Definitions Dropping Hints

Author:George Saunders

“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”

Should Would Be Literature Definitions Determine Poetry Is Formulas Concise

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

Giving Morality Ethics Let Me Give Me Definitions Damage Reverence For Life Damage Is Done Good Ethics

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.”

Book Kids Action Reading Pleasure Fiction Boys Novel Forever Focus Adventure Definitions Magazines Website Graphic Non Fiction Sharks Graphic Novels Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Jon Scieszka

“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”

Persons Taste Ego Lows Humorous Profound Definitions Insane Egotism

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.”

Knows Feels Sound Changed Smart Definitions Sexy Being Smart

Author:Sarah Shahi

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”

Kind Two Funny Hatred Fortune Definitions Jealousy Sarcasm Sarcastic Misfortunes Calamity Good Fortune Jealousy Envy Jealousy And Envy Jealous And Envy Misfortunes Of Others Sarcastic Love Jealousy And Insecurity

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”

Life Humans Children Two Age Three Sin Childhood Youth Periods Definitions Human Life Folly Remove Manhood Remorse Infancy Childhood Memories Idiocy

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

Perfect Silence Expression Perfection Definitions Contempt Silence Is Scorn Silence Is Golden

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

Work Hell Definitions Holiday Retirement Retiring Perpetual Inspirational Retirement Funny Holiday Great Holiday

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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

Winning Lost Definitions Surviving Squash

Author:Arlen Specter

“Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.”

People Government Courses Judging Exercise Absolutes Definitions Determine Accurate Despotism

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.”

Law Term Universal Definitions Permanent Application

Book:The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Source: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'”

Definitions Enthusiasm Greek

Author:Madame de Stael

“It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.”

People Definitions Rap

Author:Peter Steele

“I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.”

Thinking Definitions Precise

Author:Tom Stoppard

“There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'”

Feels Children Faces Joy Mother Parent Seeing Okay Definitions Narcissism Narcissistic

Author:Susan Sullivan

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

Reason Government Slavery Definitions Consent Consent Of The Governed Pro Slavery

Author:Jonathan Swift

“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”

Literature Style Definitions

Author:Jonathan Swift

“My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.”

Knows Country Simple Music Is Definitions Really Pretty

Author:Taylor Swift

“Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.”

Stories Evil Successful Definitions Firm Entity Multiple Equity Involving Eliminating Overhead Turnaround Private Equity Floundering

Author:Matt Taibbi

“My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.”

Feels Love Is Definitions Lighters Definition Of Love

Author:Sharon Tate

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

Needs Real Ability Society Anger Definitions Sanity Unreal Unreal World

Author:Alvin Toffler

“The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.”

Thinking Moments Answers Levels Conscious Essence Who You Are Definitions Defined Labels Present Moment

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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