quotes about identity

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James Matthew Barrie



It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~Thomas Jefferson



The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~Alfred Hitchcock



Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ~Joseph Joubert



The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson



We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage



When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela



When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen



The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.



We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet



Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. ~Henry Miller, Sexus



The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud



Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ~Elbert Hubbard



We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations. ~Martin Terman



Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ~Dave Barry



There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings



The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald