Defining Quotes

287 quotes by 262 authors

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds. — Jonathan Ive
I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction… — Carl E. Olson
The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the… — Ed Miliband
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. — Malcolm Bradbury
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I… — Betty Buckley
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. — Stephen King
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when… — Lynn G. Robbins
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this:… — Walker Evans
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a… — Thomas Boswell
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale.… — Maude Barlow
I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I am troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage.… — George W. Bush
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties… — Barack Obama
The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to… — Theo Colborn
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. — Paulo Coelho
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way.… — Sergio Bambaren
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner

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