Defining Quotes

287 quotes by 262 authors

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type… — Marshall McLuhan
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any… — Martin Rees
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up… — Jenna Fischer
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play… — Rem Koolhaas
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have… — Robert Kagan
Nothing stirs Godâ€™s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully… — Nicky Cruz
You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life! — Mark Batterson
Ending poverty and ensuringÂ sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central toÂ both of them. — Jim Yong Kim
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative. — Serge Lang
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee… — William J. Brennan
Beating John Landy was my defining race. — Roger Bannister
There has been one defining production for me in each decade. — Stephen Daldry
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing… — Joseph Sobran
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances… — James Joyce
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. — Denis Donoghue
People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play;… — Roy Ayers
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray

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