Top 1200 True Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.

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.

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

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

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

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

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

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

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

If it's true, as I believe it is, that the planet is alive, then it's probably also true that we may reach a point at which she will begin to defend herself against us.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've never done anything that I need to be doing tomorrow. If someone says, 'We no longer want you here,' I won't show up again. It was true at 'The West Wing.' It was true in the Senate.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

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

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.

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

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