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Quotes About Identity

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.
~ Richard Flanagan
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
~ Richard Harris Barham
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.
~ Robbie Fowler
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
~ Robert Burns
As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
~ Robert M. Lindner
Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.
~ Robert McCall
A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
~ Robert South
One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.
~ Roger Peyrefitte
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
~ Roland Joffe
If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.
~ Ryan Stiles
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?
~ Sam Keen
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
~ Sam Shepard
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
~ Samuel Johnson
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
~ Sean Connery
A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.
~ Sister Souljah
The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
~ Socrates
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
~ Stephen Marche
American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.
~ Steven Gerrard
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
~ Storm Jameson
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
~ Susie Orbach
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
~ T. S. Eliot