Top 100 Defined By Quotes
#1. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin
#2. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.
Jessica Scott
#3. Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.
Paul Samuelson
#4. Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.
Robin S. Sharma
#5. The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.
Michael R. Fletcher
#6. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
Sunday Adelaja
#7. If the derived class isn't going to adhere completely to the same interface contract defined by the base class, inheritance is not the right implementation technique. Consider containment or making a change further up the inheritance hierarchy.
Steve McConnell
#8. Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.
Neal Shusterman
#9. The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, the acts or discourses they produce, has meaning except relationally, by virtue of the interplay of oppositions and distinctions.
Pierre Bourdieu
#10. My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
Brian J. White
#11. Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.
Debasish Mridha
#12. We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.
Vince Poscente
#13. In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine.
Dave DeBronkart
#14. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.
Anne Rice
#15. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.
Juliet Marillier
#16. The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.
John Rawls
#17. Capitalism , as Marx defined it, is a system in which productive wealth is privately owned. Communism (which Marx proposed as an alternative) is one in which productive wealth is owned by the community, or by the nation on behalf of the people.
Richard Heinberg
#18. Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound.
James McKean
#19. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.
Daniel H. Pink
#20. Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.
Jordan Christy
#21. To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
Scott Tinley
#22. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.
Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.
Sam Hamill
#23. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.
Kenny Loggins
#24. Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A.S. Byatt
#25. Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
Jon Ronson
#26. While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.
J.R. Moehringer
#27. I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall
Serena Williams
#28. Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.
Rafael Sabatini
#29. The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.
Donal Logue
#30. The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.
Steven Sinofsky
#31. Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.
Marilu Henner
#32. No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
Christopher Healy
#33. Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).
Tony Evans
#34. Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.
John Donvan
#35. Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.
Oliver North
#36. Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
Wendy Davis
#37. Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with 'adult.' But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#38. For the woman you love, you should be willing to pick up and go anywhere. You aren't defined by your job, son, but by what you make of your life.'
If only any of it were that simple.
Kim Law
#39. You are not defined by the clothes on your body, the shoes on your feet, or the money in your pocket. You are defined by the choices you make, the character that you choose to have, and the respect you show yourself and to those around you.
Quinn Loftis
#40. Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#41. The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.
--Three Daughters of Eve.
Elif Shafak
#42. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
John McCain
#43. We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#44. Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
Charlene Li
#45. The entire notion of being defined by the crap you bring into your minds, bodies and souls, rather than what you produce with your mind, body and soul is a glaring offense to everything we are here to do on this beautiful blue ball of a planet.
Michael Tallon
#46. With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
James Gleick
#47. I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.
Steve Kroft
#48. Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
Jessica Savitch
#49. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At
Steven Pinker
#50. In the twenty-first century, building resilience is one of our most urgent social and economic issues because we live in a world that is defined by disruption. Not a month goes by that we don't see some kind of disturbance to the normal flow of life
Judith Rodin
#51. Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
Lucy Grealy
#52. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Eric Roth
#53. It dawned on me that my world was defined by accumulation, by the gratification of acquiring things, of seeing numbers go up and up again.
Leon Logothetis
#54. All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs
#55. I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don't let style become a point of contention.
Ed Stetzer
#57. And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
Duane Michals
#58. For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.
Lindsey Drager
#59. Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
John Hodgman
#60. Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
Anna Meredith
#61. One thing I've come to realize in life is that; you don't have to be defined by your life worst moments".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#62. In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.
Francis D.K. Ching
#63. Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.
Frank Furedi
#64. We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.
Julia Keller
#65. You are defined by the decisions you make. When one bites you in the ass the way you respond to it either makes or breaks you.
Benjamin Bayani
#66. Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
John Hickenlooper
#67. It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.
James Surowiecki
#68. We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
Tony Robbins
#69. I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
Maajid Nawaz
#70. It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
Felix Klein
#71. You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.
Jorge Ramos
#72. Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.
Jurgen Habermas
#73. A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
Octavio Paz
#74. In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness
Soroosh Shahrivar
#75. We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
Jason Alexander
#76. The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Klemens Von Metternich
#77. Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.
Jonathan Franzen
#78. I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.
Carroll Quigley
#80. A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
Fred Brooks
#81. In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Allison Pearson
#82. The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
#83. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.
Nenia Campbell
#84. Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.
Jim Horning
#85. But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with its well-defined roads to factory and pool-hall, to work and pleasure, both organized, both shells, both a continuation of existence by forced means, in the shadow of life?
Tom McDonough
#86. I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.
Yiyun Li
#87. I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#88. The attributes of the first, or elementary, characteristic are to nourish and protect, to give warmth and security. The second, or transformative, characteristic is defined by the dynamic element of nature, which has an inherent urge toward growth and transformation.
Massimilla Harris
#89. Tantra like any raw power is defined by the wisdom of its user
Anupama Garg
#90. Life is defined mostly by how you handle failure.
Elan Mastai
#91. I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself.
Cecelia Ahern
#93. You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
Graham Elliot
#94. We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.
Emma Caulfield
#95. Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
Andrea Arnold
#96. Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.
Auliq Ice
#97. Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.
Tim Walz
#98. Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.
Mario Daniel Vega
#99. Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Marvin Ammori
#100. For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.
Slavoj Zizek
