Identity Quotes - page 20

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. (Warren Farrell)
Modern natural history deals only incidentally with the identity of plants and animals, and only incidentally with their habits and behaviors. It deals principally with their relations to each other, their relation to the soil and water in which they grow, and their relations to the human beings who sing about 'my country' but see little or nothing of its inner workings. This new science of relationships is called ecology, but what we call it matters nothing. The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work with that mechanism his mental wealth and his material wealth can expand indefinitely? But that if he refuses to work with it, it will ultimately grind him to dust? If education does not teach us these things, then what is education for? View quote
Aldo Leopold
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure. View quote
Abhijit Banerjee
Meanwhile, the Wheel turns. The humble are exalted and the mighty are humbled. The best are inevitably defeated, and the scum always rises to the top. Here is the source of all the world's pain, that restless turning, ever accelerating, always bringing us around again to where we were before, but older, changed, scarred, and sorrowful. Had I only known the identity of the whisperer, I would never have listened. The Wheel would not have been set in motion. View quote
Michael Swanwick
Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity. View quote
Marc Randolph
Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13) View quote
Mary Roach
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope. (Kallistos Ware)
It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair. View quote
Natalie Dormer
I've never really defined myself by a single identity-and in these times where identity means so much, I sometimes feel like I'm a bit of an outsider to every identity. Perhaps that makes me uniquely suited to writing about teens, who often feel on the outside. View quote
Neal Shusterman
In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity. View quote
Nicholas of Cusa
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. View quote
Norman Davies
In recent years we have been served up a lot of claptrap about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles, flex our muscles like the sportsmen from telly commercials, and display a heart optimism totally unconvincing because so superficial an unnatural. Those who preach this doctrine are usually the kind of chauvinist who is preparing his country, not to avert war, but to engage in it. View quote
Patrick White
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance. View quote
Peggy Orenstein
While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of worries and fears that can be paralyzing, more personally there is a struggle with identity, or the fear of loss or usurpsion of identity, if that makes sense. View quote
Paul G. Tremblay
There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary. View quote
Randall Munroe
It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you. View quote
Rachel Kushner
Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already. (Rick Riordan)
Your voice is your identity. View quote
Rick Riordan
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
All of us have masculine and feminine qualities-some of this is genetic, and some of it comes from the profound influence of the parent of the opposite sex. But in the need to present a consistent identity in society, we tend to repress these qualities, overidentifying with the masculine or feminine role expected of us. And we pay a price for this. We lose valuable dimensions to our character. Our thinking and ways of acting become rigid. Our relationships with members of the opposite sex suffer as we project onto them our own fantasies and hostilities. You must become aware of these lost masculine or feminine traits and slowly reconnect to them, unleashing creative powers in the process. You will become more fluid in your thinking. In bringing out the masculine or feminine undertone to your character, you will fascinate people by being authentically yourself. Do not play the expected gender role, but rather create the one that suits you. View quote
Robert Greene
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts. View quote
Santiago Calatrava