Identities Quotes

142 Identities quotes by 126 unique authors

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling â€œtraditionsâ€; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
we would understand much more about lifeâ€™s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities… — Jose Saramago
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carre
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to… — Christopher Paolini
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our… — Maggie O'Farrell
Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other… — Joe Meno
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up… — Mary E. Pearson
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm… — Aimee Friedman
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact… — Bell Hooks
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that… — Bell Hooks
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be… — Thomas Merton
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who… — Stephen Levine
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… — Alain de Botton
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process… — Jaron Lanier
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being.… — R A Salvatore
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which… — Kofi Annan

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