Definitions Quotes - Page 29

• I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Gay, Two

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• The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Honesty, Character, World

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier: Top American Novels”, p.78, 谷月社

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• The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Real Life, Dictionary

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.47, Penguin

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• She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

  Sarah Dessen

  Names, Together, Pages

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• Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

  Steve Aylett

  Phones, Vampire, Carefree

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• You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

  Phil McGraw

  Self, Support, Lifestyle

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

  Fay Weldon

  Facts, Habit, Tendencies

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• I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body." "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition." "No, really. I'm trapped." "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?" "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted." "So you're not really a werewolf." "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?" Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Stupid, Moon, Body

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• I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."' It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Hands, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.571, Simon and Schuster

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• The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

  F. Sionil José

  Girl, Country, Real

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

  Richelle Mead

  Stories, Ends, Immortal

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.26, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Missing, Groups

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

  Alan Watts

  Want, Able

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• I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Garden, Bird, Identity

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• There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Lost

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.235, Macmillan

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• We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ocean, Eye, Blue

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.175, Penguin

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• Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

  Stephen King

  Guy, Dark Tower Series, Wanderers

  "The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla". Book by Stephen King, 2003.

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  Ralph Ellison

  Preparation, Hibernation, Action

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.38, Vintage

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• Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho) Probably a couple of million…you know it’s really hard to count to a million, plus they’re always dying and new ones are coming in. I tried to count once, but it got really depressing so I stopped. The constant adding and subtracting. Not my forte, really. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Depressing, Couple, People

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• By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfection, Good Enough, Made

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you like her or something?" I hadn't forgotten Avery's comment about leaving the door unlocked for him. "Of course I like her. She's a great person." "No, I mean like. Not like." "Oh, I see," he said, rolling his eyes. "We're dealing with elementary school definitions of 'like'.

  Richelle Mead

  School, Mean, Eye

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