I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.”
“Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.”
“Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.”
“Identity is an assemblage of constellations.”
“Identity is destiny.”
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”
“Identity is invariably false to facts.”
“Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.”
“Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”
Source: Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals
“Identity is not a destination. It is the ritual of becoming – again and again – through what is broken, buried, and brought into the light.”
Source: The Kintsugi Poet: A Memoir—Blood Memory, Secrets, and Identity
“Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.”
“Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.”
Source: The Wedding: A Novel
“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”
Source: Viriconium
“Identity is not the face,
Identity is not the trait,
Neither is it the success pace,
Nor is it the personality grace.
Let alone it being your cliché phrase,
Or did you think,
It’s some religious faith?
My child, it’s alarming that it’s none,
It’s even not tongue,
Then how can it be, what problems you have overcome
And the person you have become!
This confused the little girl,
and she was amidst a complex whirl,
of thoughts, ideas and questions….
What is it then, Father?
You have declined already,
all that mattered.
I can think no more,
of what makes an individual’s identity?
Help me through, Help me carefully.
(Poem: Identity, Book: Ginger and Honey)”
Source: Ginger and Honey
“identity is our name for being found by a story someone else told.”
Source: On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?”
“Identity is something that you are constantly earning.”
“Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.”
Source: The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
“Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.”
“Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.”
“Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.”
Source: Accelerando
“Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.”
“Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any information will change that profoundly...I [already] know that I am a Black woman, and a Black woman who has mixed some heritage, like most African Americans.”
“Identity is who you are now. The place of your strength. Your perception about individual self. A presentation you fake it until you make it. Your system of habits and core values. Your need to be and feel significant.”
“Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.”
Source: In the City of Shy Hunters
“Identity isn’t found; it’s remembered.”
Source: I AM Created, Not Manufactured
“Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.”
“Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.”
“Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.”
“Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be three dimensional, it may be a public space, it may involve government,it may involve cultural institutions, it may involve corporations, it may involve editorial publications - it can be anything, really.”
“Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.”
“Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.”
“Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.”
“Identity politics is a sordid, sociopolitical concatenation consisting of the detritus wrought by the brooding distemper and societal disfigurement, commonly associated with the inherent animus accorded intellectual bigotry.”
“Identity politics is killings free speech on campus, silencing Muslim women struggle, boosting both Islamism and the far Right and pushing reconciled Muslim voices to the fringes. It makes implicit assumptions about Islam - from an Islamist, Left or Right- perspective - and insists all Muslims must adhere to that definition or be regarded not truly Muslim. It ignores the fact that most ordinary Muslims are not in favour of a violent and that in surveys and polls they support British values more than the general UK population. Yet the myth persists that the ideology of Islamism is the true expression of what it means to be Muslim.”
“Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.”
“Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.”
“Identity politics replaced structural political analysis, and meant that people could claim identities that were seen to arrive from the heavens rather than from the power structures of sex, race and class.”
Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level—at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.”
“Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.”
“Identity untested is identity unknown.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.”
Source: Old Country
“Identity was elusive. Sometimes, you’d think you figured it out, only to look in the mirror and realize that it was you who looked this way and lived this life. And then that image in the mirror was suddenly false; who you built yourself to be was false and had been false all along.”
Source: The Myth of the Godslayer
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”
“Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.”
“Ideologiat ovat kuolleet, paitsi paskat ideologiat”
Source: Paska Suomi
“Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.”
“Ideological debates won't solve real world's problems. Empathetic actions will.”
“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior