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Definitive Quotes (page 9)

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Madeleine L'Engle
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. Albert Camus
Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something... be something definite... Witold Gombrowicz
That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon, anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The... Gilbert K. Chesterton
John F. Kennedy quote: "The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of..."
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. John F. Kennedy
Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. Hunter S. Thompson
Ann Patchett quote: "Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief..."
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. Ann Patchett
This woman has been mine, and she will be mine' he said, in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand Charlaine Harris
The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the market of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system. Don DeLillo
Oh, Lord - responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke it down into the two words that make its true definition: the ability to respond. Elizabeth Gilbert
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before. Franz Kafka
Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair of her head. But on the other side all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course. The paths wind between bogs and precipices; the trees roar and rock and... Virginia Woolf
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear. Steven Wright
Dante Alighieri quote: "If you follow your natural bent; you will definitely go to heaven"
If you follow your natural bent; you will definitely go to heaven Dante Alighieri
Pat Conroy quote: "I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the..."
I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost. Pat Conroy

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