Suppressing Your Identity Quotes & Sayings

Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that. — Amy Sedaris

It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that. — Michael Chabon

Civil war brought many hardships to the cities, such as happen and will always happen as long as human nature is the same, although they may be more or less violent or take different forms, depending on the circumstances in each case. — Thucydides

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. — Jonah Lehrer

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens. — Henryk Skolimowski

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son. — Charlie Daniels

One task the churches can undertake as the nation moves toward democracy is to increase the democracy in church structures themselves, including the ordination of women, the development of more representative and participative styles of church governance, and the repudiation of patriarchy. In many countries, churches cling to traditional authoritarianism, and are a hindrance rather than a help to democratization. It would be a major gift to the world if the churches would at long last condemn domination in all its forms, so that they may more adequately preach and embody Jesus' vision of God's domination-free order. — Walter Wink

China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day. — David Wessel

Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story. — Karl Lagerfeld

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character. — David Bergen

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. — Evan Esar

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity. — Bryant H. McGill