Quotes About False Identities

#1. Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

James McGreevey

#2. One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Reid Hoffman

#3. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

B.F. Skinner

#4. We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves ... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves
unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Brennan Manning

#5. Well, if it's the best you can do, I suppose you must

C.S. Lewis

#6. I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always here it at old family parties, like, Gladys Knight and I'd always love it but I didn't really get to know it and respect it until I was a bit older.

Rebecca Ferguson

#8. The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#9. Everything matters. Nothing's important.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. You don't have to be educated to be a president.

Julius Malema

#11. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Irving Stone

#12. Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

Joe Paterno

#13. I don't go to clubs.

Kesha

#14. I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.

Maya Banks

#15. We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real ... and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

Thomas Merton

#16. It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy