Undefined quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. -- Margaret Mead
  • And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. -- John Crowe Ransom
  • The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. -- Henry Clay
  • A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. -- Norman Mailer
  • The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined. -- Alice Oswald
  • That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb! -- James Hogg
  • Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. -- Mason Cooley
  • What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it. -- Niels Bohr
  • First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced. -- Margaret Truman Daniel
  • ... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces. -- Scott Meyers
  • The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship. -- Irwin Edman
  • With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists. -- Joe McGinniss
  • Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear. -- Tim Ferriss
  • The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. -- Rachel Cusk
  • An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow , Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride. -- J. V. Cunningham
  • The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest. -- William Howard Taft
  • And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna. -- Michael Frayn
  • While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
  • Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub. -- Alistair Begg
  • I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way. -- Naveen Jain
  • The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. -- Rachel Cusk
  • Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace. -- Leon Bourgeois
  • An undefined goal is unreachable. -- Brian Tracy
  • Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships -- Anuradha Bhattacharyya
  • I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined. -- Sarah Dessen
  • You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? -- David Mutti Clark
  • The path is undefined. You have to define and walk in your own path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
  • You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will come in undefined moments. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it; you can't share if you keep hiding! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined. -- E. L. Doctorow
  • Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond... -- Italo Calvino
  • Once I see God, I'll never be hungry or thirsty or bored again, never wish or want again, never reach for something undefined again. I will have it all. -- Kristen Johnson Ingram
  • How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? -- Vachel Lindsay
  • Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams. -- Grigoris Deoudis
  • Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share