#defining

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. ↗

— William Hague

#dealings #decisions #defining #ethical #every

The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something. ↗

— Meg Jay

#life

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #defining #deprive #good #history

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#defining #gender #i #me #think

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#degrees #event #hot #remains #thousand

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#been #being #comic #defining #defining moment

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#constantly #how #hurdles #i #just

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift