"Language is not simply a reporting device for……" — Benjamin Lee Whorf

More Defining Quotes

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• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it. — Halle Berry
• I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001.… — Luke Bryan
• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our… — Ken Burns
• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to… — Abdallah II
• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the… — Tony Campolo
• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word… — Benjamin Carson
• Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their… — Devon Aoki
• I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your… — Tyson Gay
• Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the… — Jacques Monod
• The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading… — Jim Cymbala
• Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives… — Sissela Bok

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