Top 243 Definitive Quotes & Sayings

Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

I like definitive things.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

The Text is not a definitive object.

Wait until you have made a definitive decision, about whatever it is that you are pondering, and then make a public announcement.

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.

I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I don’t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That’s why I love it so much.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

I don't want to be definitive or the last word on anything.

I like shoes that are definitive, and they know exactly what they are.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

In the past, I always set definitive goals for myself, but I've stopped doing that.

When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable.

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.