Quotes About Establishing Identity

#1. With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Des Browne

#2. In leaving behind the kind of shell common to all undergraduates, indeed to most young men, they had, in one sense, taken more definite shape by each establishing conspicuously his own individual identity, thereby automatically drawing farther apart from each other.

Anthony Powell

#3. There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

Saint John Chrysostom

#4. A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Olive Schreiner

#5. The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Marianne Williamson

#6. I used to think skiing is more thrilling than sex. Now I know it is equally thrilling and I never injured my knee by having sex.

Lucie Novak

#7. Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#8. Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.

Des Browne

#11. I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Mahmoud Darwish

#12. What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre
the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Angela Carter

#14. I love when people become obsessed with 'Downton.'

Jessica Brown Findlay

#15. Postponement: The father of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

#16. Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

Malcolm Gladwell

#17. A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

Will Rogers

#18. Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Ariana Franklin