Defined Quotes

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If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable… — Pat Conroy
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he… — Oscar Wilde
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — A. S. Byatt
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. — Toni Morrison
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. — Orson Scott Card
What if it turns out that a life isnâ€™t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for… — Jodi Picoult
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like… — Hermann Hesse
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. — George Bernard Shaw
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be… — Carl Jung
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by… — William P. Young
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly… — Malcolm Gladwell
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… — Jonathan Franzen
I have read true piety defined as: loving oneâ€™s destiny unconditionally â€“ and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that… — Isak Dinesen
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against… — Kelly Corrigan
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a… — Libba Bray
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
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our… — Terence McKenna
While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're… — J. R. Moehringer
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix

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