Defining Quotes

The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

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 wished to live my life.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

All I want is the defining moment.

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

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 parted ways.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

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; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.