Defining Quotes

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.