Defined Quotes
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.
I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.
A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.
when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.
In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined
Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.
Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.
Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.
You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.
Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.