Our Greater Identity Quotes

#1. I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Alan Hovhaness

#2. Sometimes I feel that I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in an epic movie.

Shon Mehta

#3. I have the body - they didn't have to tell me that - or that I am innocent looking enough to drive the man crazy, but I blushed when they call me pretty.

Jennifer Loren

#4. 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

#5. The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

Brene Brown

#6. I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.

Tim DeKay

#7. We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

James K. Polk

#8. In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.

Albert Einstein

#9. Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth.

Max Zeller

#10. Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

Don Henley

#12. O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.

Walter Benjamin

#13. I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. It's not like I enjoy introducing myself as a creature from beyond the grave.

Lia Habel

#15. Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Thomas Berry

#16. If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

Edward Teller

#17. What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

Thomas A Kempis

#18. I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

Anton Chekhov

#19. According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that "he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."4 The meaning of our lives emerges in the surrender of ourselves to an adventure of becoming who we are not yet.

Brennan Manning

#20. In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Mira Nair

#21. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight

#22. When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things ...

Rene Descartes

#23. Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.

Shon Mehta

#24. When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Gary W. Keller

#25. We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

Donella Meadows