Defined Quotes · Page 13

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

— Francis Parker Yockey

Never allow yourself to be defined by someone else's opinion.

— Anonymous

The definition of your life should only be defined by you and no one else.

— David S Sharp

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

— Ursula Curtiss

“Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.”

— Mark Manson

“How you are defined does not confine who you can be.”

— Kitty Downer

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not…

— Fred Brooks

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my…

— Amy Plum

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

— Breyten Breytenbach

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in…

— Noah Feldman

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

— William J. Clinton

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined,…

— Leslie Stephen

We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally,…

— Clayton Christensen

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know…

— Miguel

I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the…

— Lore Sjoberg

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For…

— Anatole France

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“You have to be able to spend time alone, to be able to not be defined by another person, but to define…

— Tabatha Beshears

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never…

— Arno Gruen

've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but…

— Walter Kirn

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs…

— Timothy Leary

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.…

— I. J. Good

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of…

— Plato

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know…

— Errol Morris

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those…

— Edward Gibbon

A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than…

— Benjamin Graham

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

— A. P. Herbert

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

— Ani DiFranco

My favourite beauty look is definitely '70s beauty - sun kissed skin, wavy hair and defined eyes.

— Erin Heatherton

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

— Joseph Addison

“Most of life is defined by how you handle failure.”

— Elan Mastai

In 'Poster Boys,' every character is well defined.

— Bobby Deol

“We are not defined by what we can do, but by what we actually do.”

— Evelyn Skye