Quotes by Identity When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. Raymond Queneau singingepicidentity Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity. Rebecca Hamilton battleidentityfundamentals Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size. Rebecca Goldstein identitymothertrying What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine. Rebecca Mead identitybookchildren Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are. Rebecca Solnit passionate-desireidentitythinking I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that's when things are changing so quickly. It's like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly. Rebecca Stead good-friendchildhoodidentity The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. Rem Koolhaas expansionstrongeridentity You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges. Reid Hoffman identityfoundworld We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. Rem Koolhaas qualitycitiesidentity When I arrived here at Givenchy, there was a lot of confusion. Before me, there had been some great geniuses - John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are great masters. They marked history. But when I came in after Julien Macdonald, it was also a bit of a mess, because not even I could understand what the true identity of Givenchy was. Everyone thinks that it's only Audrey Hepburn, but there is a whole other world behind it. Riccardo Tisci confusionidentitythinking What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along. Richard Blanco readingidentityhome Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously. Richard Hornby theatreactingidentity The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. Ralph Waldo Emerson progressidentityreligious Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society. Richard Jenkins socialidentityfacts One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall. Richard Restak eventsidentitypeople Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. Ralph Waldo Emerson findingsanalogiesidentity One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. Ralph Waldo Emerson natureeyeidentity Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. Ralph Waldo Emerson identitysecretlife I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. Rick Springfield identitywant It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. Rick Warren destinypurposeidentity«4243444546474849505152»
