Top 1200 True Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

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

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

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

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

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

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

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

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

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

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

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

An accent like mine defines you regionally, but it also gives you a class identity.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

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

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

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

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

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

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

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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

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

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

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

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

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.

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

My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

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

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

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

Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about. If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

I love what I do, and I find personal joy through my work at Harman. My identity is who I am and what I do.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

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

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

For me to play any true person in a film based on a true story, I always want to make sure that it doesn't mock and it certainly doesn't trivialize the events that took place.

So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere. ...This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

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

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

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

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

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.