Top 719 Identified Quotes & Sayings

I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

I've always identified with the misfits.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in America is an anti-abortion, anti-homosexual vote. I consider that to be anti-female and anti-gay, and I don't want to be identified with a God who is anti-anything.

With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and your own mind. It is difficult because we never make any separation. We go on thinking in terms that the mind means me: mind and me are totally identified. If they are totally identified, then you will never be at peace; then you will never be able to enter the divine, because the divine can be entered only when the social has been left behind.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither.

I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

I've identified all my life with refugees.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.

I have identified my weaknesses, and I am working on those.

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.

I think clear heads will prevail and the correct enemy will be identified, political enemy will be identified, and efforts will come together to defeat whoever it is they throw up - Democrats, I mean.

I am a transgender identified person.

How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning identified himself as Catholic, and my books certainly can be read as presenting a Catholic theology "in a very particular sense." Catholicism is a faith morally identified with the human struggle for human dignity and justice. It is a vision of the world incarnationally rooted in the senses, a faith of and in spoken and written words - Scripture, "the Word of God," the Logos.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

I've always identified with the misfits

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.