625 quotes found
“2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.”
“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”
“My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.”
“As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.”
“Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.”
“Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.”
“Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.”
“I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.”
“In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic se...”
“Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in ro...”
“Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.”
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, al...”
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life;A thirst to spend our fire and restless forceI...”
“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
“To struggle to do means to fail to see. Doing spontaneously is directly related to perceiving and realising the integrity of your individual identity and value. Doing follows conclusion. I am, ther...”
“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we kee...”
“Study the nature around you, but also within you.”
