Quotes about definition

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Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

2000s
Source: [Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, 2000, 2002, 9780849943270, 6]

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: Every Day

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague

Source: Slam

Chapter 19
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

Source: Shadowfever

The Summer Before the Dark (1973)

Source: Burned

Source: Last Sacrifice

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: Reckoning

Source: The Medusa Plot

Source: Cutting for Stone

Source: Runaway

Source: Glass Houses

Source: City of Lost Souls

Source: Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: Sweet Love

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: A Study in Scarlet

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934): "Warning"
Misattributed

Source: Lock and Key

Source: Shadow Kiss

Variant: Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
Source: The Book Thief

Source: Magic Rises

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

Das Naturgesetz und die Struktur der Materie (1967), as translated in Natural Law and the Structure of Matter (1981), p. 34

Federalist No. 47 (30 January 1788) Federalist (Dawson)/46 Full text at Wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The <br class="br">Source: 1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788) <br class="br">Context: One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. In the structure of the Fœderal Government, no regard, it is said, seems to have been paid to this essential precaution in favor of liberty. The several departments of power are distributed and blended in such a manner, as at once to destroy all symmetry and beauty of form, and to expose some of the essential parts of the edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts.<br>No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

Source: Trainspotting

Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 4

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: The Breakup Club

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Context: For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. As long as this has not been achieved, if we think we are in the stage of building socialism but instead of ending exploitation the work of suppressing it comes to a halt — or worse, is reversed — then we cannot even speak of building socialism.

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: The Financier (1912), Ch. XIII

Source: Lock and Key

Source: Cold Days

Source: Whatever

Source: Just After Sunset

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: Wolves of the Calla

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 241
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)

Variant: I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
Source: The Book Thief

Source: Love, Rosie

Source: War and Peace

Source: The Persistence of Yellow: A Book of Recipes for Life

Source: Summer Lightning (1929)

Source: The House of Hades

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Source: Succubus Blues

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Variant: ... because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Walking (June 1862)
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Source: Infinity

Out of Habit
Song lyrics
Variant: Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: The Gathering

Source: The Last Werewolf

Source: Hymn of the Universe

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name

Source: Codex Born

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: Between the Lines

Source: Handle with Care

Source: Raw Spirit

Source: Tales of Freedom

Source: Dream Chaser

Source: Beloved

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir