Determined Quote by Michel de Montaigne

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose thatwax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think,…

— Tamar Jacoby

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

— Meryl Streep

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

“We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever…

— Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

— Audre Lorde

I describe myself as a human being.

— Jimmy Kimmel

Define yourself before you define others.

— Jeremy Limn

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of…

— Horace Bushnell

“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose…

— Abhijit Naskar

“With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called ‘I’ –or, rather, make the things that constituted me.”

— Haruki Murakami