Top 480 Definition Quotes

Good eyebrows give your face definition.
Anastasia Soare
Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.
Dave McClure
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to m

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer
Corporate blogging strategy requires some specialist insight in order to understand tone, the definition of micro-niche leaders, and subjects to cover.
Richard Edelman
What a song is is a subjective thing. There’s no one real definition for it.
The Edge
About my books, that’s all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Patrick O’Brian
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Philip Hammond
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
Keyshawn Johnson
Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?
Sushant Singh Rajput
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.
Wendell Berry
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer
I’m a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
Nell Scovell
Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil to outline the brows and give them more definition. To soften edges, comb color through with the spooley end.
Anastasia Soare
Biggest man law – be a man. Simple: be a man, definition of being a man is being a man. And don’t let your woman turn you into a little boy.
Eddie Griffin
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
Mitski
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
Joichi Ito
A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.
Lee Isaac Chung
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, ‘same sex,’ then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
Gary Bauer
The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can’t talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn’t strong enough when you’re just like, ‘Let’s take a second to sing about lamps!’
Rachel Bloom
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Maya Lin
By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
Tibor Kalman
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
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
Martin Seligman
I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They’re way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They’re like, ‘You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.’ They’re not, ‘Aah, it’s not real jazz.’
Jose James
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That’s the definition of political sarcasm.
Bassem Youssef
Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It’s not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.
Irvin Mayfield
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I’m trying to determine who’s leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.
Tim Reid
It’s not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you’re different.
Aileen Lee
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner
My definition for ‘playback’ is being able to create a musical moment for people to have smiles and weep for joy.
Jubin Nautiyal
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
Dick Ebersol
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they’re larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They’re provocative, assuming they grapple with – to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
Steven Bochco
The ‘No.1 IT company’ isn’t by volume, it’s in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That’s my definition of the ‘No.1 IT company.’
John T. Chambers
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Ajay Naidu
Everybody who labels themselves a ‘nerd’ isn’t some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who’s never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.
Joss Whedon
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child’s becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
Clyde Edgerton
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.
Katie Piper
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet’s force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.
Ari Melber
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus
The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far right, the far left, racists of every stripe, as well as jihadists.
Peter Bergen
I don’t have a definition for depression. I’m productive, and that’s not a sign of depression, right? And I don’t have weeks where I don’t leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin
The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you’re not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
Alessia Cara
By definition, saving – for anything – requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That’s hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
Jean Chatzky
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Konrad Lorenz
Marriage has historically, as long as there’s been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?
Mike Huckabee
It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you’re going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.
Peter Falk
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that ‘Hamilton’ is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.
Brandon Victor Dixon
I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary’s definition of nerd: ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’. I’m also keen on the same Urban Dictionary’s definition of geek: ‘the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult’. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
Malorie Blackman
I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
Dennis Ritchie
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.
Jose Mourinho
I’ve never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What’s a star? Is that something in the heavens? That’s the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it’s all about.
Pernell Roberts
My definition of a ‘friend’ is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, ‘Yeah, sure. You know what? Let’s talk about what we can talk about. Let’s help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.’
David Mamet