#defining

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#away #basics #between #core #family

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

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. ↗

— Paul Begala

#defining #dictates #generally #gonna #terms

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#defining #defining moment #make #mark #me

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#amazing #amazing experience #because #defining #experience

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#between #college #defining #dies #dimension

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#defining #dies #dimension #i #issue

At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#age

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define. ↗

— Thomas B Dowd

#inspiration #inspirational #moments #inspirational

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. ↗

— Peter Agre

#commitment #defining #events #future #hopkins