Quotes About Identity

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

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'.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.