We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.
Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Every championship, by definition, is historic.
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.
By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.
Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.
I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians. . . It hasn't worked on Trump yet, and they've been trying it a year and a half, folks. We're dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. " It's not Trump who's insane. Trump's having the time of his life.
The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.