Quotes About Identity

more typical essay is the one on Karl Kraus, of which Kraus confessed that the only thing he understood was that it was about him.

Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.

Asking you to play someone you're not is like asking King Kong to play the Moonlight Sonata.

For me, London is and always will be home.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Girls usually have a paper m'chÈ face on their wedding day.

Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course.

A woman claims as many native lands as she had happy love affairs, Likewise, she is born under every sky where she recovers from the pain of loving.

How much of us is what we do?

This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?" "I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not.

I went in search of myself.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.