Identity Quotes - Page 9

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.