Defined Quotes
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.
It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.
Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.
My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea
Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
