#definition

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conflict #confusion #debate #definition #disagreement

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do? ↗

— Joshua Braff

#funny #funny

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #water #humor

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#children #clothes #clothing #definition #humor

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ↗

— Chauncey Mitchell Depew

#humor #naughty #humor

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#definition #existence #finality #life #death

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ↗

— John Buchan

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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#definition #does #done #effective #feel

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#beach #black #black hole #bones #book