Roles Quotes

“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
― Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace

“You like to assign roles to the people in your life. And when they don't play their parts right, you have a hard time accepting that.”
― Kasie West, Pivot Point

“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventory
of my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months."

She dropped her eyes. If only he knew that she'd stayed that way all her life.

We'll be living in close quarters," he went on. "We're legally married, and it's only natural that we're going to get it on."

Get it on? His bluntness reminded her that none of this meant anything to him emotionally, and contrary to all logic, she'd wanted to hear something romantic. With some pique, she said, "In other words, you expect me to keep house, work for the circus, and 'get it on' with you."

He thought it over. "I guess that's about the size of it.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

“One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.”
― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I was a vase.
The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her.
And then, sitting with Jacob at the community table, she'd been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.
But she hadn't been a flower when she'd gone to live with Claire, had she?
Emilie traveled deeper into the shop. She was in the addition now, its ceiling higher, its rows of tables laden with houseplants. Water, she decided. That's what she'd been with Claire. Shapeless, colorless, but necessary. She'd done what she had to. She had been there for her grandmother. She'd kept her family afloat.
But what was she now?”
― Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

“Suppose you are in your room alone and somebody walks in. Your behaviour changes depending on who is with you in the scene.

When we are with others, we are playing different roles. When we are alone, we are preparing, rehearsing and thinking about the roles. We have forgotten who we really are!”
― Shunya

“You, dear reader, earnestly play all your parts. The roles that were assigned to you without your consent are stuck to your body like a label: A label that you can’t remove before death. A label that can’t be removed even after death. The labels are invisible. They’re not really there, you know. They’ve melted into your flesh. They may have even made their home in a deeper, more abstract part of you. You won’t be able to fish them out even if you’re sliced up to the point that your bones are exposed and your guts are spilling out of your carcass.”
― Dolki Min, Walking Practice

“Para mim, o mundo é apenas o mundo, Graciano: um palco em que todos nós representamos um papel, sendo o meu triste.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Be so much of a man that your woman has no reason to sound like your mother.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff Davis

“We train boys to believe that the way to become a man is to objectify and conquer women, value wealth and power above all, and suppress any emotions other than competitiveness and rage. Then we are stunned when our boys become exactly what we have trained them to be. Our boys cannot follow our directions, but they are cheating and dying and killing as they try to. Everything that makes a boy human is a “real man’s” dirty secret.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“In nature, water plays the role of a mirror.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“We all at some point realize we’re not so much stuck in our roles as we are stuck in our own heads. It’s there where the roles exist in the first place.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“But you’re a—” “Woman?” Ahnna supplied.

“You’ll find we hold to a different way of life in Ithicana. What’s between your legs doesn’t determine the path you’ll walk in life.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“The artist doesn't hide behind a role – not even the role of the artist.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Be so much of a man that your woman has no reason to sound like your mother.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“Some people simply aren’t interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davisff

“Some people simply aren’t interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“Leaders who are more concerned about the output of their roles progress far better than those who are more concerned about robes.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“O Filho do Todo-Poderoso vem ao mundo, assumindo uma condição de grande fragilidade. Necessita de José para ser defendido, protegido, cuidado e criado. Deus confia neste homem, e o mesmo faz Maria que encontra em José aquele que não só Lhe quer salvar a vida, mas sempre A sustentará a Ela e ao Menino.”
― Papa Francisco

“During an abduction, it is important to reverse the roles as early as you can through shouting, calling 911 and video recording the event.”
― Steven Magee

“Of course different people fulfill different functions in this world. It cannot be otherwise. As far as intellectual or physical abilities are concerned—knowledge, skills, talents, and energy levels—human beings differ widely. What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play. When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role. It is the beginning of freedom from the role. When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously. You also automatically assign roles to others that correspond to yours. For example, when you visit doctors who are totally identified with their role, to them you will not be a human being but a patient or a case history.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Every day,
I always have
to be
surrounded by
people

Funny how I can’t live all of their lives

We are always confined to
certain roles,
because other people
take all the other ones”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“Solitude

I don’t want to live under
your servitude

I just want to fulfill
all the roles
and live all the lives”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“You just the organ grinder monkey, he told her. Alvin turns the crank and you just hold the cup for the pennies.”
― William Gay, Stories from the Attic

“I don't want Kitt's role in life because I refuse to give him mine. My brother is no killer, and it's better me than him.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless