Top 1200 Search For Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

If you embrace a project that will require time and patience, then you need something to work on. So the first step of the project is to create an identity. If you don't have an identity, then today you want this player and tomorrow another one. If you have an idea and a shape, then this is how you develop an identity.

Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.

Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.

People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

Building brands and helping people figure out their identity - as far as a business identity and everything - was kind of my niche.

In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your own identity. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.

I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity.

The model of Yood is 'taking search out of search.'

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

For every teenager there are issues that make finding it hard. These girls are totally unique and totally like every teenager everywhere - in the world. They illuminate, beautifully, the universal search for identity that we all have. I hope that people come away from the film with a better understanding of themselves, and compassion for others.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.

I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.

I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background.

All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.