Defining Quotes · Page 4

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

— Kenneth Cole

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

— Ryan Tedder

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

— Louis Untermeyer

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is…

— Van Morrison

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

— Ellen Hopkins

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

— Rachel Hoffman

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

— Alison Bechdel

Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the…

— Jay Leno

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining…

— Sarah Silverman

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the…

— Walter Salles

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that…

— Marc Kielburger

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in…

— Wen Jiabao

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general…

— Max Weber

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to…

— Taiye Selasi

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all…

— Emma Watson

I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary…

— Richard Rohr

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use…

— Ergun Caner

My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used…

— Emma Corrin

Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion…

— Nicky Cruz

Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power.…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know…

— Jodie Foster

In fashion, general people will look to the piece itself. [Some designers] concentrate on, 'How can I make this seam look special?'…

— Raf Simons

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing…

— Ravi Zacharias

“These are defining moments, while the pain maybe great, the joy maybe greater.”

— Anonymous

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

— Serge Lang

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no…

— Anonymous

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

— Denis Donoghue

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

— Jean Driscoll

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

— Andrew McCutchen

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

— Eleanor Catton

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Be the best version of yourself in the defining moments of your life.

— Anonymous

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

— Jim Yong Kim

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

— Lisa Rinna

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

— Colin Powell

“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

— Jay Weatherill

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I…

— Paula White