Defined Quotes - Page 22

• A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Money, Self

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Power, Liberty

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.87, Penguin

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• I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

  John Hughes

  Brother, Hippie, Clothes

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• The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Children, Taken

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• Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

  John Adams

  Usury, Banking, Loan

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• I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.

  Vikram Chandra

  Beautiful, Thinking, Seductive

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• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

  John Piper

  Reality, Want, Morality

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• Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

  Scott Walker

  Should, Governors, Surround

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• Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

  Bill Johnson

  Passion, Discipline, Christianity

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

  Chris Carter

  Important, X Files, Files

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

  Andre Dubus

  Jobs, Thinking, Life Is

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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• I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

  Sam Worthington

  Hero, Believe, Literature

  Source: collider.com

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• 99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mother, Baby, Arbitrary

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Tired, Desire, Speak

  Source: outwardfromnothingness.com

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• For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Art, Creative, Doe

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Röbel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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• I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

  Anita Roddick

  Suffering, Body, Hepatitis C

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• If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

  Chip Kidd

  Problem, Wells, Ifs

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Decision

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• Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Intuition, Mind

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• Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

  Marilu Henner

  Life Is, Success In Life, Plan B

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• Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

  Thomas Piketty

  Opposites, Source, Method

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• Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

  James Dobson

  Attitude, Men, Determined

  James C. Dobson (1992). “Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions: Marriage & Sexuality”, Tyndale House Publishers

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