Defined Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

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.

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.

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.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.