Top 1200 National Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

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

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

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

I would rather be single than be someone's girlfriend because that's not my identity.

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

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

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

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

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

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

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

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

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

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

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

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

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

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

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals for my career from the time I was a very young woman. I wanted to win a local award, then I wanted a state or national award. Small press, big press. Some women fantasize about their weddings, their husbands, and children. I fantasized about what I wanted to accomplish with my books.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

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.

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

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

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

According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

What you collect is the ultimate impartation of who you are. It's the archive of your identity - it's what you leave behind.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying and reinvigoration by the national press in terms of covering national issues and the presidency. The Washington Post and The New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and a lot of other places, they've actually done some really strong work when confronted with this administration. But the resources that you used to have at state and local level aren't there anymore.

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

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

It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.