Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

[The myth of the ] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs as those who know or were born to know; he thereby defines others as a...

Paulo Freire

Captain: Define "hoe-down". Ship's Computer: Hoe-down: A social gathering at which lively dancing would take place. Captain: [AUTO appears near the captain] AUTO! Earth is amazing! These are called "farms". Humans would put seeds in the ground, pour ...

WALL·E

A mule can swim seven different strokes but the moment he sees the water he forgets them all.

Armenian

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Cryptonomicon

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Take the time first to understand who you are and everything else will fall into place.

Define Yourself and become the architect of your future

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

Every Day

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Eating People is Wrong

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

Ghost Town

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

Here, Home, Hope

The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Break, Blow, Burn

Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words.

Beautiful Quotes

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.

Being and Time

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

Helen Fisher

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Howard Schultz