Define Quotes

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

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

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.