The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
Charlie Hunter

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
Robert Musil

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Thomas Haden Church

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
Andrew Morton

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
Nelson Goodman

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Konstantin Stanislavisky

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.
Tommy Shaw