Define Quotes
1539 quotes by 1205 authors
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,…
— George Carlin
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One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me;…
— Wilma Mankiller
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To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.
— Stephane Mallarme
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Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
— Shashi Tharoor
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice…
— Condoleezza Rice
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If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
— Cynthia Ozick
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t…
— Bell Hooks
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
— Oprah Winfrey
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
— Wendell Berry
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For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing…
— Albert Camus
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You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch…
— Julian Barnes
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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.
— Brandon Sanderson
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For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at…
— Barack Obama
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.…
— Toni Morrison
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,…
— Michelle Obama
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The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded…
— Sarah Dessen
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