Top 1200 Personal Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

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

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.

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

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

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

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

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

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

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

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

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

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

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

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

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

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

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

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.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

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

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

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

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature and the universe. With what is real, not a manmade contrivance. Finding a connection with those things through my music is something I've begun to take more seriously in order to understand why I feel that way.

The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

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

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.

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

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.

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

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

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

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

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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

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

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

Clarifying your identity helps you just talk to ladies.

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

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

I can only speak from my personal journey and my personal struggles which are completely different from other individuals but if I can slightly help someone else understand themselves, then that's perfect. Because I only make music, there's so much emotion in the music itself that I hope people can tap into and feel the same way I feel when I listen to it.

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

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

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

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

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

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

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

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

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

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