Science is defined in various ways but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental which is repeatable which can be predicted and which is falsifiable.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in and homage rendered to existences unseen and causes unknown.

In the 21st century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life regardless of race or religion.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Personally I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know my higher self. The Creator.

And across Afghanistan every single day Afghan soldiers Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power and imitating male power is not female power.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments however radical in intent or consequence are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

When the media defines something you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

As I became very defined in my personal politics I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

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

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

As for political poetry as it's usually defined it seems there's very little good political poetry.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it when we see it but we can't define it.

It's not easy to define poetry.