Defined Quotes

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

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

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.