Defined Quotes

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You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a… — A. S. Byatt
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him… — Arthur Miller
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself.… — Orson Scott Card
We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the… — Pete Hautman
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the… — Charles Taylor
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… — Gilles Deleuze
Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I… — Kelley Armstrong
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps… — Miguel de Unamuno
I hate that word, CANâ€™T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CANâ€™T could be eradicated… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted… — Walter Mosley
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. — Theodore Roethke
You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a… — Nicholas Sparks
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for… — Matthew Scully
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection… — Janet Evanovich
We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to… — Ally Carter
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it. — Hunter S. Thompson
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by… — Pittacus Lore
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them.… — Paolo Bacigalupi
We are not defined by our things. ItÂ´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- ItÂ´s not… — Alyson Noel

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