Ascribed Identity Quotes & Sayings

A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it. — M.F. Moonzajer

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable. — Marina Leigh Duff

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility. — Allen Wheelis

David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me. — David Lipsky

Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually. — Kenny Smith

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him. — David Jeremiah

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. — Lana Wachowski

I'm not here to argue for the world. That's not in my job description. I'm just trying to save it. — Karen Marie Moning

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions — Jules Michelet

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. — Henry Taylor

All very ancient history, except that of the illuminated Jews, is a perfect fable. It was written by priests, or collected from their reports; and calculated solely to raise lofty ideas of the origin of each nation. Gods and demi-gods were the principal actors; and truth is seldom to be expected where the personages are supernatural. The Greek historians have no advantage over the Peruvian, but in the beauty of their language, or from that language being more familiar to us. Mango Capac, the son of the sun, is as authentic a founder of a royal race, as the progenitor of the Heraclidae. What truth indeed could be expected, when even the identity of person is uncertain? The actions of one were ascribed to many, and of many to one. It is not known whether there was a single Hercules or twenty. — Horace Walpole

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred. — Shahid Afridi

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The fate of man is man. — Bertolt Brecht

I do so love the art of severing boundaries — Poppet