Identifcation Quotes & Sayings

You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided. — Franz Kafka

From the pioneers we can learn to have faith and trust God; we can learn to be compassionate to others; we can learn that work and industry not only bless us temporally but spiritually; and that happiness is available to us no matter our circumstances. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally. — Paul Bettany

How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan

No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Sufficiently entranced, she will pass the day somewhere else, in a world that understands her unelaborate hopes and grants to the lonely soul of the loveless, graceful peace. — Steve Kilbey

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13 — Randall Styers

I didn't leave you to hurt you," she whispered.
"But it did."
"I spent seven years on the receiving end of pain. I'm ready to be on the giving end."
"Did you have to start with me? — Tiffany Reisz

What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful? — Ian Astbury

Often, it's hard to identify an economic event risk until it's too late. — Toba Beta

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!' — Jake Epstein

I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. 'I told 'im to start finkin' smart. — Robert Newton

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there. — Charles R. Swindoll