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's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

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.

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.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

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.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

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.

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

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

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.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

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.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

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.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.