Identity Quotes · Page 109

“When I learned the identity of one of the police officers that had been harassing me, I was truly shocked!”

— Steven Magee

“I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.”

— Sol Luckman

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

— Jane Levy

It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality

— Shayan Italia

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

— John Dewey

“She stopped chasing acceptance, and stepped into identity.”

— Deborah Patrick

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

— Anonymous

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

— Anne Carson

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're having a tough time as a team, you all need to stay together - you can't start becoming individuals.

— Adam Lallana

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

— Howard Rheingold

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight…

— Willie Aames

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no…

— Ariel Levy

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10”

— Chris Hedges

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as…

— John Philip Newell

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes…

— Walt Disney

“Courage, Lucy Snowe! With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not…

— Charlotte Brontë

“If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within…

— Rebecca Solnit

In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but…

— Devin Townsend

The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow…

— Kim Jong-un

“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type: begin with a type, and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

— Anwar Sadat

“Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

— Charles S. Maier

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

— Henry Rollins

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.”

— Alex Lamb

I'm a hard-working individual and I think that's what separates me.

— Davis Webb

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

— Doug Liman

“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”

— Lauren Slater

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

— Sharon Stone

“The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.”

— Bryant McGill

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“masculinity lies rather in the problem of identity,” Schlesinger concluded”

— Susan Faludi