Top 1200 Mistaken Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

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

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

My identity is that of a Pakistani player. And nothing is more important than that for me.

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

I remember where I was when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time. It was such an epiphany for me, and it really shaped the way I play today. I think I heard him in '83, if I'm not mistaken - I was 13 years old - and it really was amazing for me.

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

An accent like mine defines you regionally, but it also gives you a class identity.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.