Quotes About Defining

The defining element of hell was eternal conscious suffering. Here

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.

It's a duel between us, a long-standing matchup that has defined our relationship over the years: fighting to hide the emotions, but knowing exactly what the other is feeling, and battling to not be the first to break.

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function of economic good fortune.

'Be Cool' was a defining movie for me.

There are many defining moments in my journey.

10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.

Ahora pensaba que lo que importaba eran las pequeñas cosas de la vida. Si los grandes momentos del pasado eran los que marcaban el tono, los acontecimientos de la vida cotidiana eran los que definían quién era ella.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

We are remember e for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot so.

Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.

a moment, she said, in which we decide who we are.

'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.

The defining difference between the spree killer and the mass murderer has to do with motion. Whereas the mass murderer slaughters in one place, the spree killer moves from site to site, killing as he goes. In that sense, spree killing might best be described as mobile mass murder.

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

Part of the great challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment, of seizing the opportunities that you are given, and of making the very best choices you can.

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.