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Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything. -- John Allen Paulos
Defined brows instantly make you look more polished. -- Bobbi Brown
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. -- Aldous Huxley
You don't need to be defined by your job. -- Al Yankovic
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. -- Peter Drucker
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. -- Kanye West
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. -- Caroline Knapp
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. -- Carolina Herrera
I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to the next. -- Justin Timberlake
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. -- Azim Premji
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. -- Albert Bandura
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! -- Jane Taylor
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. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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. -- Kofi Annan
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. -- Bill Frist
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution. -- Bill Drayton
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe. -- Mustafa Akyol
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. -- Isabella Rossellini
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones. -- Naveen Jain
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. -- Constantin Stanislavski
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. -- Kenny Loggins
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. -- Peter Agre
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. -- Eckhart Tolle
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. -- Kirk Cameron
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. -- Stedman Graham
Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined. -- Robin Hobb
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Mark Twain cannot be defined. -- Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain cannot be defined." -- Hal Holbrook
Define yourself or be defined. -- Antero Alli
Love communicated is love defined -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced -- Christopher Logue
The sacred time defined the sacred-moment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Customer relationships are defined by customers. -- Jim Sterne
Your destiny isn't defined. You create it -- Mark Patterson
Leadership is defined by results not attributes. -- Peter Drucker
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%. -- Thomas A. Edison
My pathways are defined by the Creator. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We're kind of defined by our mistakes -- Tommy Shaw
Dare to travel on your defined path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I never wish to be easily defined. -- Franz Kafka
I dont want to be easily defined. -- Theophilus London
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences. -- Haruki Murakami
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. -- Toni Morrison
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined -- Nas
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. -- Karen Horney
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss. -- Julian Barnes
Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing -- Lea Michele
Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved. -- Harry Lorayne
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I'm not defined by where I came from. -- Katy Perry
A problem defined, is a problem half solved. -- Albert Einstein
Thor and Loki are defined by each other. -- Tom Hiddleston
TV and film has defined my entire life. -- Azita Ghanizada
Your destiny can only be defined by you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I dare travel on a destiny defined path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Who will dare say he has defined art? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the end, living is defined by dying. -- Bernard Beckett
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. -- Lajos Kossuth
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. -- James A. Garfield
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. -- Jessica Savitch
Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. -- John Ralston Saul
We are defined by how we place our attention. -- Diane Ackerman
Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce -- Meg Whitman
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. -- Derek Harold Richard Barton
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. -- Karen Allen
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty -- Douglas Adams
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman -- Heinrich Heine
What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done. -- Michael J. Schmoker
We are defined by how we use our power. -- Gerry Spence
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! -- Douglas Adams
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I cannot be defined by what other people think. -- Oprah Winfrey
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
You need, instead, to be defined by your values. -- John Baird
Happiness is an inner perception, not a defined destination. -- Debasish Mridha
We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. -- Tony Robbins
You should not be defined by one bad performance. -- Ashley Wagner
I want to be defined by my own essence. -- Kathy Bates
A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes -- Anderson Silva
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. -- Derek Harold Richard Barton
You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music. -- Patrick Wilson
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. -- Alberto Manguel
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. -- Gerald Hausman
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. -- Orson Scott Card
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. -- Michael Polanyi
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements. -- Bill Courtney
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid. -- Henry David Thoreau
Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am. -- Nicholas Sparks
No one has really ever defined what a friend is. -- Joseph Epstein
Beauty is not defined by the size of your jeans. -- Liv Tyler
God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus. -- Huston Smith
E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender. -- Chris Alexander
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped. -- Bruce Lee
Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them. -- Max Lucado
Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice. -- Rush Limbaugh
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity. -- William J. Clinton
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss. -- Eric Roth
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. -- Vernon Lee
Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations. -- Toba Beta
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? -- Harold Prince
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. -- W. H. Auden
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. -- Italo Calvino
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind. -- Martio Puzo
In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. -- George W. Bush
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. -- Charles Petzold

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