Defined Quotes - Page 14

• A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Men, Average

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• Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Class, Middle, Unlimited

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Independence, May

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• A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

  Bill Vaughan

  Imagination, Inspire, Behaviour

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• They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Evil, Optimism

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• In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
  And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
  I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
  All well defined, and several stinks!
  Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
  The River Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Two, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Males, Fields

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Purpose, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Essence, Long Ago

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Important, Better Life, Method

  "he New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Self, Patterns

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War”, p.225, Granta Books

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• Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

  Betty Friedan

  Light, Darkness, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Desire, Doe

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.420, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Attitude, Book, Vocabulary

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• God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dogma, Spots, Universal

  Mary Baker Eddy (1968). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you’re not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.

  Tom Morello

  Thinking, Decision, Asking

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Effort, Taste, Century

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• In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Paris, Consistency, Style

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

  Rufus Choate

  Important, May, Students

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• Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Kids, Boys

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• Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

  Maureen Lipman

  Boys, Letters, Definitions

  Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.88, JR Books Limited

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• Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Competition, Intellectual, May

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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