I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
The presence of a big obstacle doesn't define a negative life, but failing to face and conquer it, is what builds a wall between oneself and a positive life.
If you don't want the world to judge you wrongly, then let your frequent decisions and actions clearly define who you truly are.
People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.
Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them.
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.
The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..
Worthiness should not be defined by the whims of magic weapons. Rise, my son, and let the hammer be damned. Rise and remember the hero that you are.
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.
Our ability to have patience, and our attitude toward others, define who we are at any given time.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
