Defined Quotes

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

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

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

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.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

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.

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.

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.