Defined Quotes

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

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.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

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

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.