Top 115 Defines Quotes

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.
Sayed Kashua
While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can’t figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn’t prove there’s a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
Tony Campolo
I don’t view myself as a ‘trans actor’ or a ‘trans model.’ I mean, I am – it’s part of who I am – but it’s not something that solely defines me.
Carmen Carrera
I definitely don’t see what people do for a living. I feel that doesn’t define you as a human being; who you are defines you. I couldn’t care less about what you do.
Brie Bella
I’m competitive – that’s what defines me – and I love it.
Daley Thompson
The Mac defined ‘personal technology’, and the iPhone defines ‘intimate technology’ as a convergence of communications, content and location.
John Sculley
I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
Mira Nair
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins
I don't think that one thing defines me, but I know tha

I don’t think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports – to take that stand – that it’s always going to be a label that is stuck with me, and I know that I’ll always be the ‘gay skier,’ and it actually doesn’t bother me.
Gus Kenworthy
We have to be strong in ourselves. Whoever defines themselves only through their opponents risks making their entire programme… dependent on others.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It’s how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.
Martin Brodeur
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew
Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
Paul Craig Roberts
The BJP promised that the end of Article 370 was going to be the close of business-as-usual in Kashmir. But if anything defines business-as-usual, it has been New Delhi’s attempts at political engineering in the Valley.
Barkha Dutt
I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
Jack Whitehall
Being you is what defines real beauty.
Denise Bidot
It’s how many times you get back up that defines you.
Rich Froning Jr.
I’ve had great success and I’ve had catastrophic failure. It’s really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
Peter Berg
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It’s how you deal with the troughs that defines you.
Michael Lee-Chin
As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the ‘other’ is the barbarian.
Octavio Paz
I’m unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.
Matt Bevin
I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.
Kat Von D
Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat – you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.
Wayne LaPierre
Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.
Shankar Mahadevan
I’m a former hippie, so clothes are important to me – your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I’m in my Brooks Brothers period now.
John Hughes
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am – if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
Dominique Wilkins
I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
Agyness Deyn
We must strengthen everything that defines Denmark. I look forward to working with all of you here in Parliament. We must live up to the hopes we have generated: a safer, more just and greener Denmark.
Mette Frederiksen
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.
Soulja Boy
More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
Anand Giridharadas
A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
Douglas Alexander
We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
Ray Kurzweil
‘V-Wars’ is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.
Jonathan Maberry
What defines someone as a ‘man’ should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.
Karamo Brown
You come up against challenges in life, and it’s how you deal with them that defines you.
Harry Kane
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney
Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is

Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, and it is OK. It is ridiculous to have this dictate your very being because I have always said that it is not the outside that defines who you are.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.
Bill Foster
Through life’s ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody – nobody’s opinion – define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.
Mahira Khan
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don’t talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
It’s difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I’ll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That’s what defines good music to me – if it makes me truly feel something.
Eliot Sumner
Even more than ‘Swingers,’ ‘Go’, for me, defines my career.
Doug Liman
You’re going to fail. It’s how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Vernon Wells
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
Sheryl Crow
I’m naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I’m lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
Catherine Tate
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
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
Neel Mukherjee
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
Edward Zwick
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.
Rachel Dolezal
The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.
Susie Dent
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
Chuck Hagel
That’s what defines ‘Survivor’: it’s the ultimate test of who you are.
John Morrison
That’s something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you’ve never met.
G. Willow Wilson
I am a fashion graduate, and I try to make a fashion statement which defines my individuality, as clothes are not just what you wear, but they also communicate.
Shweta Tripathi
Orthodox Islam, like orthodox interpretations of the other Abrahamic faiths, views homosexuality as sinful and usually defines marriage as only ever a heterosexual union. This isn’t to say that there is no debate on the subject.
Mehdi Hasan
The fact is, there’s no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.
Reggie Fils-Aime
This is America – you’re allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.
Lee DeWyze