Identify Quotes
756 quotes by 638 authors
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.…
— Holly Black
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Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests…
— Anne Bronte
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It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
— Dan Wells
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I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to…
— E L Doctorow
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Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked…
— Jon Ronson
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Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room…
— Veronica Roth
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You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
— Noam Chomsky
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The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious…
— Jack Kerouac
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Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
— Michael Ondaatje
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You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we…
— Jodi Picoult
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He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved…
— Guillaume Musso
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Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will…
— Kristen Britain
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When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
— Frank Herbert
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
— Joseph Campbell
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a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?
— Eric Weiner
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Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we…
— Scarlett Thomas
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