Identity Quotes

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I reserve my right to be complex.

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.