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1. "I don't think a name defines the core of who you are."
Author: Agyness Deyn
2. "Într-adevar, despre cine si despre ce pot sa spun: «Cunosc asta!» Îmi pot pune inima la încercare si socotesc ca exista. Lumea aceasta o pot atinge si socotesc de asemenea ca exista. Aici se opreste stiinta mea, tot restul e constructie. Caci, daca încerc sa înteleg acest eu de a carui existenta sînt sigur, daca încerc sa-1 definesc si sa-1 rezum, el nu mai este decît o apa care-mi curge printre degete. Pot sa desenez rînd pe rînd toate chipurile pe care stie a le lua si pe toate cele ce i-au fost atribuite, educatia, originea, înflacararea sau tacerile, maretia sau josnicia. Dar nu poti aditiona chipuri. Propria-mi inima va ramîne totdeauna pentru mine de nedefinit."
Author: Albert Camus
3. "When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you?"
Author: Andy Paula
4. "Almost. Almost.How I hate that word and the way it defines me.Almost raped. Almost over it. Almost normal.I can almost forget. Way worse, I can almost remember."
Author: Anne Eliot
5. "Life....Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay..."
Author: Bilal Hussain
6. "The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."
Author: Brené Brown
7. "It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention."
Author: Conan O'Brien
8. "Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage."
Author: Dan Savage
9. "And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money."
Author: Douglas Coupland
10. "The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested."
Author: E.M. Forster
11. "Language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation."
Author: Fereidoon Yazdi
12. "This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition."
Author: Gary Shteyngart
13. "A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience."
Author: Geraldine Solon
14. "Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own life and problems.  It is an escape from the narrow boundaries of being only me. Reading in some wonderful ways helps me find out who I am. When she was a young girl Patricia MacLachlan's mother encouraged her to "read a book and find out who you are." And it is true that in some ways reading defines me as it refines me. Reading enlarges my vision of the world; it helps me understand someone who is different from me. It makes me bigger on the inside. We tend to see the world from our own perspective; it is good to see it from the eyes of others. Good literature helps me understand who I am in relation to what others experience. Far from being an escape from reality, good literature is a window into reality. I read to feel life."
Author: Gladys Hunt
15. "All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done."
Author: Israelmore Ayivor
16. "What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward."
Author: Jean Paul Sartre
17. "The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location."
Author: John Sculley
18. "Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen."
Author: Jojo Moyes
19. "Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death."
Author: Julian Barnes
20. "For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what life is about; unless you know and feel that the days of wine and roses are limited, that the wine will madeirize and the roses turn brown in their stinking water before all are thrown out for ever- including the jug- there is no context to such pleasures and interests as come your way on the road to the grave."
Author: Julian Barnes
21. "Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom."
Author: Kamil Ali
22. "As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens."
Author: Kamla Persad Bissessar
23. "Question: When you're one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It's how you choose to answer that question that defines you."
Author: Karen Marie Moning
24. "Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does."
Author: Laura C. Schlessinger
25. "But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality."
Author: Laura Lippman
26. "It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
Author: Leon Redbone
27. "In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice."
Author: Michel Foucault
28. "You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future…because THAT only comes once.' VAALBARA The Land of Shadows"
Author: Michelle Horst
29. "And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better."
Author: Mitt Romney
30. "Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. Harry! If only you knew what Dorian Gray is to me!"
Author: Oscar Wilde
31. "Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you."
Author: P.C. Cast
32. "The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past."
Author: Palle Oswald
33. "Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills."
Author: Ray Kurzweil
34. "It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns."
Author: Rick Warren
35. "But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them."
Author: Rick Yancey
36. "A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our arms. We can hold the whole of him. But when we grow too large to be held our body no longer defines us"
Author: Rosamund Lupton
37. "We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us."
Author: Ruth Cardello
38. "A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax."
Author: Ryan Seacrest
39. "What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."
Author: Sarah Dessen
40. "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
Author: Scott Adams
41. "Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being."
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
42. "As anyone who starts a business knows, it is a fantastic race. There is a statistic that hangs over your head - over 90 percent of all new businesses fail in the first three years. For anyone with even a bit of competitive spirit in them, especially for someone who defines himself or herself as an entrepreneur, these overwhelming odds of failure are not intimidating, they only add fuel to the fire. The foolishness of thinking that you're a part of the small minority of those who actually will make it past three years and defy the odds is part of what makes entrepreneurs who they are, driven by passion and completely irrational."
Author: Simon Sinek
43. "Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag."
Author: Soulja Boy
44. "Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture."
Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich
45. "Your agreement with reality defines your life."
Author: Steve Maraboli
46. "I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health."
Author: Teri Hatcher
47. "Willpower defines realm."
Author: Toba Beta
48. "The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else."
Author: Tom Hollander
49. "This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause]But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.."
Author: Virginia Woolf
50. "The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardship is hopeless and meaningless unless it involves long-term courage, perseverance, devotion, and skill. This skill is not to be confused with any accomplishment or grace of spirit or of intellect. It has to do with everyday proprieties in the practical use and care of the created things - with "right livelihood."
Author: Wendell Berry
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