Identity Quotes

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

You cannot hide your true self forever.

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

I have my own identity as a player.

The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.