Defined Quotes

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.