#definition

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#find #get #out #proper #real

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #philosophy #humor

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

— Criss Jami

#conflict #confusion #debate #definition #disagreement

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

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. ↗

— Dario Argento

#definition #emotion #fearful #horror #pure

The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the Holy Writ shall not." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#holy-writ #marriage #r-alan-woods #unnatural #change

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

#always #because #could #definition #feel

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#always #becomes #definition #equivalent #give

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. ↗

— Georges Braque

#definition #itself #substitute #thing