I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it
Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talentsgiftsskills-not in terms of a job-title.
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.
It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time. . . The losses are what define a man's faith.
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth. . . art never changes.
Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.
Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.
I think my interest in risk is pretty high, a lot higher than I think a lot of other people who are just looking for something to kind of define themselves, give them a set of fingerprints, and certainly is better for the pocketbook. For me it's always about trying new things and wanting to explore something else and something new of myself and of actors I really like.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.