Define Quotes

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

MS doesn't define who I am.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.