Defined Quotes

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.

Mark Twain cannot be 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.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.