Quotes About Identitites

#1. My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

James Salter

#2. As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

Charles Baxter

#3. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,

Satoshi Kanazawa

#4. I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

George MacDonald Fraser

#5. When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Seneca The Younger

#6. That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend
what humans are capable of.

Markus Zusak

#7. All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Kevin O'Leary

#8. As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

Laurie Foos

#9. At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.

Jeff VanderMeer

#10. If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.

Ethan Nichtern

#11. And yet
it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

John Green

#13. Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

Brian Molko