Top 1200 National Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a top security clearance because she has proved in her past acts that she is extremely careless in handling national security information.

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

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

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

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

I feel proud to be a member of SHINee. It is a great team with a unique identity.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

Every year the identity of a team changes to some degree.

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

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

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

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

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

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

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I really truly believe I found my identity with country music.

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

It seems to have taken me a long time to find my identity.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

When Star Wars became a hit and I had a chance to make the other movies, I had to figure out a way to bring Ben back, but a lot of the issues he had to deal with were carried by Yoda. In a sense, I combined Yoda with the spirit of Ben. I wanted Ben to have some kind of influence, but I didn't want it to be a direct influence where he could help Luke. So Ben has managed to keep his identity after he became one with the Force. One of the things he was doing on Tatooine besides watching over Luke was learning how to keep his identity after he became part of the Force.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

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

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

I am very thrilled with my newfound identity post 'Metro.'

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.

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

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

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

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.

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

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

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