Defining Quotes

“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Everyone wears clothing, yes? Society divides these clothing up into Men & Women’s, Boys & Girls’, Jr. & Miss. But society cannot decide who wears what. While the fabric may be cut to suit a traditionally male or female body (boy or girls body), the second the buyer purchases the item, that clothing no longer becomes 'boys' or 'girls' clothes, but rather, the buyers clothes. This is an example of the individual defining the identity term vs. the identity term defining the individual.”
― Cristina Marrero

“I want to be defined by the things that I love. Not the things I hate, not the things I'm afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I, I just think you are what you love.”
― Taylor Swift, LOVER

“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.”
― Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

“There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.”
― Thomas B Dowd

“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.”
― Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People Is Wrong

“The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.”
― Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters

“Was weird until weird was normal”
― Alex Grove

“These are defining moments...while the pain maybe greater.....the joy maybe greater.”
― M Carithers

“These are defining moments, while the pain maybe great, the joy maybe greater.”
― M Carithers

“I spent 2021 through to 2023 on Hawaii Island defining the new classification of altitude sickness and developing the supplements that treat it.”
― Steven Magee

“I will always be a "nothing," for things and beings with true depth are far from all kinds of rigid labels, hollow terms, ordinary diagnoses, clear definitions, narrow classifications, pontificating explanations, societal categories, and those poisonous human languages that have existed, exist, and will exist.”
― Sov8840