Defined Quotes

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Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them. — Max Lucado
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood
Your denomination is not defined by a style. So donâ€™t let style become a point of contention. — Ed Stetzer
Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on… — Dalai Lama
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses… — Bob Iger
The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly. I'm a case of arrested development,… — Olivia Wilde
People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. — Nina Dobrev
I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are… — Jessica Capshaw
I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. — Karen Allen
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. — Joseph Campbell
The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement. — Steve Lawson
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word… — Adam McKay
We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not… — Camille
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides… — Francis Crick
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. — Charles Elachi
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to… — Ralph Richardson
Iran is an ancient land, home to a proud culture with a rich heritage of learning and progress. The future of Iran will be decided… — George W. Bush
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy… — H. L. Mencken

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