Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person’s individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. – Hugh Laurie
The thing about acting is you don’t want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It’s a pleasure to go and exchange your identity. – Gena Rowlands
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. – Gregg Easterbrook
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that’s how I always read ‘The Tempest,’ for example. – Hanya Yanagihara
The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected. – Gunter Grass
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? – Henry Rollins
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. – Haile Selassie
We’re a nation in search of an identity, but it’s quite exciting. I don’t regard it as a problem. It’s a challenge. – Helen Clark
When you’re a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity. – Hugo Weaving
How do you manage your online identity? It’s something I talk about with my students all the time. – Hasan M. Elahi
If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take. – Helmut Lang
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. – Gregg Easterbrook
The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don’t behave according to your identity, you pay a cost. – George Akerlof
Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of. – Hassan Rouhani
Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. – Henry Rollins
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 security but our very identity is endangered. – Henri Nouwen
When you’re younger, it’s hard because you’re finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that’s a tricky phase – as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you’re working with. – Hilarie Burton
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. – Henri Nouwen
Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don’t have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want. – Hanya Yanagihara
In ‘Before and After,’ I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as ‘Monitoring,’ ‘Scheduling,’ and ‘Convenience.’ Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as ‘Thinking,’ ‘Identity,’ and ‘Clarity.’ – Gretchen Rubin
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin
When you use Facebook, you’re always logged in, and your identity and relationships – to others, to content, to apps and services – are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads). – John Battelle
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results. – Judith Butler
The reactions haven’t differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself. – Jon Meacham
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world. – John Burnside
I think there’s something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn’t want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived. – Junot Diaz
