#identity

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. ↗

— Hugo Hamilton

#growth #identity #self-discovery #self-discovery

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ego #egotism #endorse #give #identity

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. ↗

— James Baldwin

#experience #faces #his #identity #person

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#identity #iranian #iranians #islamic #other

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#gives #idea #identity #little #man

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#cameraman #certain #certain way #employment #environment

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#may #teeth #wonderful

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. ↗

— Marc Webb

#identity #inherit #own #you #your

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#identity #nation #national #national identity #need