Defined Quotes

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

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

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.