Prince Philip Quotes

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

A corporation, we have held, is not a "citizen," within the meaning of the privileges and immunities clause … But a corporation is a "person" within the meaning of the equal protection and due process of law clauses.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

People are not their behaviors.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

I know my face better than anyone else.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her tea. “Just Daphne Bridgerton, I suppose. It’s difficult to shed the surname in this clan. In spirit, that is.” “I hope that is a compliment,” Lady Bridgerton remarked. Daphne just smiled at her mother. “I shall never escape you, I’m afraid.” She turned to Gareth. “There is nothing like one’s family to make one feel like one has never grown up.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.