Defined Quotes

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

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.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid 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.

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.

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.