Definitions Quotes - Page 19

• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Optimism, Guy, Experience

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

  Richard Walters

  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

  "Let Go and Be Free: How Forgiving Calms Anger and Heals Wounded Hearts". Book by Richard Walters, August 15, 2002.

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• My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

  Clayton Cramer

  Justice, Hungry, Social

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• I'm so passionately hopelessly in love with my job! I think the definition of workaholic is that you can't wait till the weekend is over so you can start working again.

  Ann Shin

  Jobs, Passion, Weekend

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• I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Children, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, Promise, Fetish

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Trump Says Comments About Judge 'Have Been Misconstrued'" by Sarah Mccammon, www.npr.org. June 7, 2016.

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• We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Law, United States

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Simple, Thinking

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the best, it's the best and the toughest.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Guy, Immigration

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

  Anne Waldman

  Struggle, Reality, World

  "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks.
  His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Issues, Different

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

  Theresa May

  Simple, Views, Needs

  "'The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat, and I think it's important to us.'". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Children, School

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Father

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

  Sharon Gannon

  Self, Focus, Breathe

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

  Ace Hood

  Mean, Ruthless

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Mother, Sibling, Love Is

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

  Sam Brownback

  Government, Law, Constitution

  Senate Confirmation Hearings - Day 1, www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

  Tom Coburn

  Justice, Want, Facts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

  Jack Canfield

  Soul, Purpose, Fulfillment

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• Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Records, Pursuit, Athletics

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• One of the definitions for "mad" is "wild"; I'm certainly all for wild as opposed to domesticated.

  Sharon Gannon

  Mad

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