Defined Quotes
Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.
I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'
If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.
What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.
Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.
Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.
Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.
Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.
We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.
As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
