One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait]… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
“There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.” — Thomas B Dowd Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation. — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic. — Lisa Rinna Copy Share Image
