Defined Quotes

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

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

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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.

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.

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

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.

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.

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

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.