Quotes About Identity

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

a defaulting not from prescribed activity but from prescribed being'.

Yeah, they told me, just be yourself ... so I did. Maybe that was the problem.

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

The creation of an authentic work of art, the creation of an authentic life - they are one and the same.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

something that reads the same backwards as forwards) I have ever seen. It reads, 'A man, a plan, a canal – Panama.

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

Actors and directors have written about it, psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and even biologists have pondered it. What is acting, and how is it done? How does someone become someone else? Can someone become someone else? How much of what an actor does is due to that mysterious quality we call talent?

Lauretta! ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names: if you had called her Deborrah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

You deserve to have interests beyond your child.

All known cases of women in the ranks involved volunteers who, unlike regulars, often did not have to undergo physical examination upon enlistment. One Alabama Volunteer passed off a female companion as his frail younger brother until the ruse was discovered. Caroline Newcome took the name "Bill" and served as a private in the Missouri volunteers until pregnancy betrayed her. A similar case occurred in the Mississippi volunteers.

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Oh damn! One measly civil war in the entire history of England and I'm on the wrong bloody side!

There are few of us who do not believe that there is something special about the place in which we were born.

in the same way a person is the same individual as a boy and

Indeed, this is what modern and postmodern masculinity has been all about-men behaving like little boys forever, serving themselves in the name of self-discovery. (Can we imagine someone like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill talking about going on a quest to find his masculine self? They were too busy changing the world.)

For those unhappy with modern society, folk music suggested the colors, scents, and textures of a more authentic time. The folk scene offered a purer cultural identity, or at least the fantasy of one.