Top 1200 Definition Of Insanity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

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

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

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

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

At the end of the day, we each have a different definition for beauty, but being yourself is the most important.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.

I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.

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

I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

What is the definition of the 'between player'? I have never heard of it, and I have been around for quite a few years.

I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

When I backed off the cardio and refocused on strength training, the muscle definition came back.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .

'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.