For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style.… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“"Blind nationalism, like a distorting mirror at a fairground, bends the critical capacity of the beholder; and those who distinguish their personal… — Tim Tzouliadis Copy Share Image
“In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“The Infinite One cannot be torn apart from itself. It is our personification of good, our belief that it belongs to a… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“life had been building potential, potential that would now go unrealized. I had planned to do so much, and I had come… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity,… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how… — Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to embrace happiness , let your personal identity get all wrapped up in the concept of happiness. Fold… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Taking the guest’s hand, Love asks, “Who made the eyes but I?” (11–12). This brilliant sally asserts that man cannot look away… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“What sets Sanders apart is his ability to merge his professional role with his personal identity as a father. His genuine bond… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive.… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
“It was seldom necessary to use the full force of the fire inside her, but when it came, it came without apology.… — Donna Goddardard Copy Share Image
Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
“By 19oo, anybody could end up "a 'Nobody,"' plodding down the "many paths leading to the Land of 'Nowhere."' Failure had become… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
