Top 1200 Mistaken Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

In terms of identity, I'm the same person no matter what I'm doing.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Something that is funny, that I use sometimes if I'm doing comedy, is the fact that I'm now often mistaken for the rapper Rick Ross. And I don't know that I've ever corrected anyone - like I've never said, 'No no, I'm not Rick Ross, I'm Black Thought from The Roots.'

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

On my first trip to Havana, I was stopped by a woman who turned out to be a Canadian tour guide and who had mistaken me for a woman who had been part of one of her tour groups.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality; something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.