Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

Karen Duffy

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

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.

Scott Adams

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

Stephen LaBerge

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Indra Nooyi

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Conrad Black

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Peter Agre

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

Steve Carell

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Aaron Allston

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

Doc Hastings

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Joan Jett

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

David Ansen

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

Gao Xingjian

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

Edward James Olmos

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Graydon Carter

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me. Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you.

C. Elizabeth

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Carlton Fisk

We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

John Avlon