Top 1200 Definition Of Insanity Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

My core definition of success is my family. They provide me with all the support I need to feel good, both in and outside of my career.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

'Victoria and Abdul' will surely tickle the hearts of many and prove that love has no definition. It can be pure and priceless.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Let me be the first to say 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.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

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The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Han Solo has always been - and I think for a lot of people, too - this iconic character who's the absolute definition of cool.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

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.

Batman gets close to the insanity of Gotham, to the craziness, to what drives that city mad, and not be driven mad himself - or, at least, most of the time he isn't. That's most like the mission of the C.I.A. We get into the heads of our enemies without becoming our enemy.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.