Retorts Define Quotes

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't let others define you. Define yourself. ~ Ginni Rometty

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music. ~ Donatella Versace

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself. ~ Billie Jean King

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. ~ Tom Chappell

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ~ Alfred Edward Housman

Don't let others define you. You define yourself. ~ Ginni Rometty

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them. ~ May Sarton

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. ~ Josh McDowell

I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The ~ Don DeLillo

Either define the moment or the moment will define you. ~ Walt Whitman

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers. ~ Baruch Fischhoff

Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education. ~ Mary Hatwood Futrell

You need to define yourself in the marketplace. ~ Steve Madden

Neuroanatomy isn't destiny. Neither is genetics. They don't define who you will be. But they do define who you might be. They define who you can be. ~ Temple Grandin

You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor. ~ Ginni Rometty

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself. ~ Vera Farmiga

I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else. ~ McG

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for. ~ Michael Wilbon

Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you. ~ Moosa Rahat

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me. ~ Preity Zinta

Define yourself before others do. ~ Debasish Mridha

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love? ~ Beyonce Knowles

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished. ~ Morley

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you. ~ Shaun Hick

How we define and frame the world around us creates our so-called reality. ~ Joseph Deitch

I don't think you can really define love ~ Harry Styles

Define your life,
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are. ~ Nicky Gumbel

Society does not create nor define my beauty. I do. ~ Alicia Emamdee

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself. ~ Joel Kinnaman

Never let anyone define who you are. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality. ~ Debasish Mridha

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself. ~ Moon Unit Zappa

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them. ~ Ndamukong Suh

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine. ~ Alison Krauss

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~ George Will

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. ~ Deborah Eisenberg

We don't define the unlimited. ~ Toba Beta

One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs. ~ Tamim Ansary

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind. ~ Ethan Zohn

men don't define moments, do they? Moments define the man. ~ E. Stuart Marlowe

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. ~ Jenna Jameson

Never let the world define you as less than Great. ~ Bill Parcells

People define you based on what you value... ~ Assegid Habtewold

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES. ~ Cynthia Eden

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience. ~ Jason Moore

Do your actions define who you are, or does your purpose define why you are? ~ Debasish Mridha

A relationship doesn't define you. You define you. ~ Tammy-Louise Wilkins

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. ~ Stokely Carmichael

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me. ~ Michele Bachmann

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up. ~ Vince Vaughn

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. ~ Hussein Chalayan

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. ~ Kim Jong Il

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations. ~ Tom Shadyac

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles. ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. ~ Zeresenay Alemseged

I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person. ~ Genesis Rodriguez

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you. ~ Rick Warren

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you. ~ Nina Easton

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. ~ Marc Webb

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. ~ William Glasser

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. ~ Gene Luen Yang

Let your failures refine you, not define you. ~ Max Lucado

Define your career by IMPACT, not TITLE. ~ Richie Norton

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself. ~ David Alan Grier

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person. ~ Jennifer Grey

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ~ Umberto Eco

I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug.
"How about a man?" she retorts. ~ Alexandra Potter

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.' ~ Maria De Medeiros

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives. ~ Kristin Hannah

We don't have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves. ~ Lizzie Velasquez

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately. ~ Hasan M. Elahi

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable. ~ Halsey

A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else. ~ Miranda Kenneally

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. ~ George Michael

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it. ~ Melanie Benjamin

I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn't or hasn't or wouldn't or wasn't. ~ Cameron Conaway

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. ~ Liz Phair

People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When ~ Niels Saunders

Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training. ~ Penny Pritzker

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you.
These things can define you or you can define yourself through them.
I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life.
It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending.
Now I am going to work on my next one. ~ JohnA Passaro

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition. ~ Kellan Lutz

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. ~ Robert Scoble

It's not easy to define poetry. ~ Bob Dylan

A band can define their own success. ~ Adam Schlesinger

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything. ~ Phillips Brooks

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way. ~ Kathy Bates

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. ~ Laurie Helgoe

It is so important that we as spiritual people should not define ourselves only by our profession ~ Sunday Adelaja

Do not give anyone the power to define your character. Let your character define and bring out the good in you as a person. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person. ~ Yelawolf

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it. ~ Wallace Shawn

Humankind invented clocks to define eternity just as humankind invented religion to define God. ~ Suki Michelle

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage. ~ H. Rap Brown

'I'm not that easy to get rid of,' Andre retorts. 'As you know well. What state are you in? Besides confusion.' ~ Lynn Kelling

It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships. ~ Justin Welby