Best 2380 quotes in «identity quotes» category

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general themes - time, place, memory, God, history, class, race, beauty, love, poetry, identity. The core identity is the poet making the poems.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

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

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.

Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.