Defines Quotes

448 Defines quotes by 367 unique authors

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. — BrenÃ© Brown
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made… — John Piper
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems… — John Shelby Spong
As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have… — Greg Graffin
Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes… — Lisa Gardner
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea… — Antonin Artaud
What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The… — Rick Warren
Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.… — Jojo Moyes
Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren — Kathryn Lasky
What kind of dining set defines me as a person? — Chuck Palahniuk
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics… — Douglas Adams
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his… — Fulton J. Sheen
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines… — Irvine Welsh
It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us. — Susan Mallery
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards. — Francis Chan
If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child. — Russell Brand
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and… — Jean-Paul Sartre
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself,… — Adrienne Rich
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. — Zadie Smith
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no… — Nelson Mandela
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in… — Ingmar Bergman
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because… — Stephen King
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
How you spend your time defines who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

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