Identity Character Quotes

#1. She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#2. efforts and character of institutions like these can grow into a way of life when the people involved in them put them at the center of their cultural existence and identity and, as it were, fall into orbit around their rich moral core.

Yuval Levin

#3. I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

Jean Nouvel

#5. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Kathryn Lasky

#6. With every character, you alter, you can't be attached to your own identity.

Nicole Kidman

#7. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.

Raymond Queneau

#9. I think as an actor ... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

Michael Mando

#10. No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Dalai Lama

#11. I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

Dan Chaon

#12. When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

Ralph Lauren

#13. He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Hugo Hamilton

#15. I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.

Ben Sollee

#16. I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.

Veronica Roth

#17. Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.

Rigoberta Menchu

#19. Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Rick Warren

#20. Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

Angelica Hopes

#21. The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

Neil T. Anderson

#22. America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality

Susan Cain

#23. Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#24. Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?

Marc Guggenheim

#25. We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

W. Phillip Keller

#26. I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

Kiese Laymon

#27. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.

Harley King

#28. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

#29. There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not.

Fennel Hudson

#30. Don't dwell in comparisons; be your own kinda' beautiful

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#31. As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Charlie Pierce

#32. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

Fennel Hudson

#33. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Thomas Merton

#34. A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

Fennel Hudson

#35. I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

Alan Ball

#36. Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#37. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

#38. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine.

Marie-Veronique Nadeau

#40. Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Fennel Hudson

#41. 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.

Dan Chaon

#42. The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

Elizabeth Moon

#43. I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored even myself. And by the time I was thirty-six, my course was set, my die stamped, I knew I would never change.

Philip Palmer

#44. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Charlotte Eriksson

#45. Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.

Fennel Hudson

#46. My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

Vivienne Westwood

#47. Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.

Jeanette Winterson

#48. The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

Don DeLillo

#49. That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

Pat Barker

#50. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Charlotte Bronte

#51. The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

Paul Ricoeur

#52. Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is]
an interesting role for an actor.

Dolph Lundgren

#53. I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.

Robert M. Hensel

#54. If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

Kirk Cameron

#55. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#56. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Doug Liman

#57. A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

David Amerland

#58. Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

Mary McCarthy

#59. Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.

Fennel Hudson