Defined Quotes

• I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Word
  • India
  • Defined

• I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Career
  • Fight
  • Defined

• I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • American
  • Idiot
  • Defined

• The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Men
  • May
  • Party

• As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

  

  Caroline Dries
  • Characters
  • Feminist
  • Relationships

• So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Conditions
  • Adolescence
  • Defined

• Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

  

  William Torrey Harris
  • Individual
  • Results
  • Historical

• We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

  

  Adi Da
  • Controlled
  • Defined
  • Transcended

• Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

  

  William Feather
  • Problem
  • inspirational
  • Defined

• Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

  

  Benjamin Wiker
  • Way
  • Sometimes
  • Errors

• Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.

  

  Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Political
  • Doctrine
  • Ideology

• Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

  

  Charlene Li
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Position

• I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Reality
  • Boundaries
  • Abnormal

• Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Defined
  • Contention
  • Denomination

• Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

  

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Aspect

• Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

  

  William Thomas Councilman
  • Environment
  • Things
  • Disease

• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  

  Kat Cole
  • Important
  • Sense
  • Crush

• We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Choices
  • Gender
  • Nationality

• Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

  

  Geerhardus Vos
  • Theology
  • Revelation
  • Defined

• A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Political
  • Body
  • Animal

• I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Defined

• We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Stories
  • Defined

• Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Should
  • Achievement
  • Defined

• The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Education
  • Aspirations
  • Middle-class

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