Defined Quotes

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

I'm taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.