Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? Votes: 4
Matthew WeinerIdentity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive. Votes: 3
Steve InskeepIdentity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. Votes: 3
Ben BernankeIdentity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution. Votes: 3
Andrew SolomonNothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. Votes: 3
Chuck PalahniukYou have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. Votes: 3
Thabo MbekiIdentity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. Votes: 3
M. John HarrisonIdentity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran Votes: 3
Patricia BriggsIdentity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. Votes: 3
Dorothy WestOPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceRight before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. Votes: 3
Matt DamonIdentity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. Votes: 3
Melissa BeanIdentity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. Votes: 3
Margaret HalseyIdentity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Votes: 3
Emma DonoghueYou are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves. Votes: 2
Chris MatakasAbsolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Votes: 2
Woodrow WilsonCanada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Votes: 2
Marshall McLuhanI know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. Votes: 2
AnnaLynne McCordYou have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. Votes: 2
Fernando FloresPractical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up? Votes: 1
Kit WilliamsThe ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self. Votes: 1
Vironika TugalevaA story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances Votes: 1
Santosh Avvannavar... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterI tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls... Votes: 1
Jennifer ElisabethYou know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you. Votes: 1
Moffat MachinguraThe waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here. Votes: 1
Doug CooperThrow away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 1
Charles Haddon SpurgeonQuestions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward? Votes: 1
Doug CooperOur identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. Votes: 1
Brennan ManningAt least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific. Votes: 1
Jan NerudaIndividuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people. Votes: 1
Fennel HudsonThe most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status Votes: 1
Nathanael KanyingaWho are you, Miss Snowe?"..."Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise. Votes: 1
Charlotte BronteWho are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment. Votes: 1
William GoldmanYou are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal... Votes: 1
Dave ZebianYou should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves. Votes: 1
Phil LesterPerhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. Votes: 1
Orson Scott CardI never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me. Votes: 1
Doug CooperTo know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God. Votes: 1
Felix WantangSearch not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth. Votes: 1
Eric Micha'el LeventhalSometimes heartbreak can be quickly healed when the other person's true identity is exposed. Votes: 1
Brenda PriddyHumikab ang dagat na parang leonmasarap sanang tumalon peroBAWAL MAGTAPON NG BASURAsabi ng alon. Votes: 1
Jose F. Lacaba...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterTell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. Votes: 1
Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuveNo sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. Votes: 1
Charles Haddon SpurgeonLove holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. Votes: 1
E'yen A. GardnerWhen you understand who you are, you cause the world to change in your favor. Votes: 1
E'yen A. GardnerThe identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. Votes: 1
Nick JoaquínOnly the one who recognizes his power in Jesus Christ can build a strong team. Votes: 1
Sunday AdelajaAn illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. Votes: 1
George OrwellShe could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. Votes: 1
Núria AñóI want her sinful arms wrapped around me,bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame. Votes: 1
Miriam JoyIf mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case. Votes: 1
Andrena SawyerThe most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity. Votes: 1
King Michael of Romania...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterI get happy and I get sad,just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder. Votes: 1
Casey Renee KiserEven the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before. Votes: 1
Doug CooperI look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup. Votes: 1
Andrea Portes...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close... Votes: 1
John GeddesWe live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all. Votes: 1
Elizabeth Miyu BlakeNo, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run. Votes: 1
Rainer Maria RilkeI've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me. Votes: 1
Stephen DunnI never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterMy identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. Votes: 1
MH MahdiThere are varieties of life unknown to you.Their whole identity is: you can't find out. Votes: 1
Dan ChiassonWho thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? Votes: 1
Slash ColemanMaybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. Votes: 1
Marieta MaglasMaybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. Votes: 1
Marieta Maglas Near KinFacebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks. Votes: 1
Brooke HauserI seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. Votes: 1
Jeanette Wintersonwhen love comes without a clue - it comes to shake all our identity from our root. Votes: 1
lity munshiI am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital. Votes: 1
Charlotte ErikssonNo matter what you do, you are that girl. It's how you become that girl that matters. Votes: 1
H.M. WardMaybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. Votes: 1
Hugo HamiltonYou're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. Votes: 1
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhy does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life? Votes: 1
Slash Colemanvariety comes from choice of many in oneand create a new another color as my own identity . Votes: 1
lity munshiNew Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. Votes: 1
Anne RiceCulture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it. Votes: 1
Imani NettlesNaming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. Votes: 1
Nihad SireesShe breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them. Votes: 1
John Fitzgerald KennedyWe usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away. Votes: 1
Tim HillerUntil you are able to answer the question of self, you'll still be living under someones shadows Votes: 1
Ikechukwu IzuakorOh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being. Votes: 1
Gayle FormanIf you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life. Votes: 1
Akemi GCulture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it. Votes: 1
Imani NettlesWe are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be. Votes: 1
Tenth Avenue NorthNone of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us. Votes: 1
Thomm QuackenbushYour identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. Votes: 1
Bharath MamidojuGod is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. Votes: 1
Ralph EllisonFor my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman. Votes: 1
Gloria NgWhen you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. Votes: 1
RuPaulThere's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think--and more often than not, to think too much. Votes: 1
Doug CooperYou do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become -like- someone else. Votes: 1
Samuel R. DelanyDon't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today. Votes: 1
Vironika TugalevaIt is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. Votes: 1
Chris MatakasThere's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be. Votes: 1
Rose TremainI am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Votes: 1
Charlotte BronteOnline life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself. Votes: 1
Sherry TurkleI am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life. Votes: 1
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinHe was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters. Votes: 1
Mahesh PoudyalTo find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms. Votes: 1
Gene Luen YangLife, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. Votes: 1
Ellen RaskinWe do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. Votes: 1
Shelley HendrixI am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Votes: 1
Charlotte BronteDo not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Votes: 1
G.K. ChestertonOnly me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think. Votes: 1
Gabriel KingThey don't know who I am; what they do know, is that I'm not nothing, and that I'm not noone. Votes: 1
Justin K. McFarlane BeauI realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are. Votes: 1
Gayle FormanWhat I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into. Votes: 1
Nick FlynnWe must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be. Votes: 1
John PowellThe only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. Votes: 1
Ashly LorenzanaI know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life. Votes: 1
Tal McTheniaMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth Votes: 1
Oscar WildeI take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Votes: 1
William ShakespeareThe illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieScience is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
William SaroyanWhat passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
James A. BaldwinI think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.
Steven PetrowIn human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Brennan ManningFor every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.
Chris BroganEvery application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
Mark ZuckerbergThere is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.
Jack BalkinWhy is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.
Karen WheatonThere are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
Amartya SenA corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.
Doug BerryI was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.
Maria ShriverYou must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ
Sinclair B. FergusonI'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.
Tim KinsellaA group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.
Eckhart TolleYou seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
Jack KerouacNever let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.
Jacqueline SusannThis story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Northrop FryeI'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.
Tilda SwintonI haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
Jill SolowayThe Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
John GoddardIf you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Mark ZuckerbergWe want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.
Narendra ModiOne thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.
Soledad O'BrienThe strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Tony RobbinsKnowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.
Gene WeingartenOur identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.
Max AndersIt's hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Natalia MakarovaBeing alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.
Sara Maitlandin New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.
Vivian GornickTo speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
Dana GioiaYour only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.
Deepak ChopraI realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!
Alexander CheeToo great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
Djuna BarnesThe ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.
Gelsey KirklandAt some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."
Guillermo del ToroYoung black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.
Henry GirouxWriting a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.
Jay NeugeborenCommitting yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.
Robert E. TerwilligerAs we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
Tony RobbinsI think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.
Eddy de ClercqThat which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
Ayn RandWe've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
Diane ArbusAttention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.
Marshall McLuhanThis is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.
Patrick CalifiaEvery day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.
Robert BreaultThat charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.
Fergus McCannIt is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Soren KierkegaardI'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.
Stephen KingMy identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. Votes: 1 Hiam Abbass
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition. Votes: 3 Michael Eric Dyson
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills. Votes: 5 Donnie Yen
The building's identity resided in the ornament. Votes: 1 Louis Sullivan
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity. Votes: 1 Robyn Hitchcock
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines. Votes: 1 Michael Eric Dyson
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. Votes: 2 Maria Sharapova
I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'. Votes: 4 John Howard
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Votes: 2 Jonathan Safran Foer
In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using the Web. Browsing the Web leaves digital tracks everywhere in the form of log files, and anyone who hosts a Web site can be easily traced. Votes: 1 Jamais Cascio
With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports. Votes: 3 Des Browne
To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life. Votes: 3 Mooji
Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had. Votes: 3 Chaz Bono
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. Votes: 1 Betty Buckley
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. Votes: 1 Michael Douglas
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. Votes: 5 Judith Butler
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. Votes: 1 Jaron Lanier
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. Votes: 5 Kenneth Noland
I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks. Votes: 1 Katrina Kaif
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Votes: 1 Ariel Dorfman
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it. Votes: 1 Diane Kruger
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. Votes: 1 Catherine Opie
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly. Votes: 1 Aloe Blacc
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. Votes: 1 Michael Douglas
The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity. Votes: 6 Neil T Anderson
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. Votes: 1 Tullian Tchividjian
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. Votes: 2 Henri Nouwen
What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity. Votes: 2 Melissa Etheridge
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way. Votes: 1 Kevin DeYoung
The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. Votes: 4 Frank Abagnale
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance. Votes: 1 Ruben Hinojosa
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. Votes: 2 George Edward Woodberry
Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy. Votes: 2 Patrick Dempsey
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity. Votes: 2 Eddie Huang
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Votes: 1 Ariel Dorfman
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. Votes: 4 George McGovern
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it. Votes: 1 Robert Fripp
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them. Votes: 1 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. Votes: 5 Slobodan Milosevic
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? Votes: 3 Chuck Palahniuk
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. Votes: 1 Morley Callaghan
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. Votes: 3 Manning Marable
When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. Votes: 4 Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly. Votes: 5 Aloe Blacc
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. Votes: 5 Penelope Lively
All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity. Votes: 4 Bryant H. McGill