Labels Quotes - Page 9

• It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  People, Bullshit, Looks

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• Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Motivation, Decision, Vices

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• Time doesn't exist. It doesn't exist in any way. It's more subjective than real. Time doesn't exist. I believe in memory. Memory is the real inspiration. Memory creates time. Memory is pure power. Pure power and pure strength, and pure utilization of space and time (if time is something we can really ever label). But I don't believe in time itself.

  Arman

  Memories, Real, Believe

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• We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

  Anais Nin

  Matter, Speak, Feminine

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• We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

  David Levithan

  Stupid, Eye, World Love

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• My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

  John Irving

  Boys, Categories, Get To Know Me

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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• Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

  Rick Riordan

  Warning, Saws, Boxes

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• It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Bookstores, Ifs, Sections

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Silly, Mean, Trying

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• The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Reading, Ideas

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• I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

  Marissa Meyer

  Survivor, Looks, Rotting

  Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Men, Challenges

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• I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever.

  Mira Grant

  Sleep, Trying, Calling

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• It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)

  Erin Gruwell

  Dream, Heart, Self Worth

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• Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gold, Identity, Revolution

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• What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Important, Three, Elsewhere

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• I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

  Erin Gruwell

  Mexican, Proud, Way

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

  Barry Lyga

  Energy, Useless, Waste

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• In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

  Joan Halifax

  Teacher, Good Things, Accepting

  Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Compassion, Names

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.7, Anchor

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• Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

  Annie Lennox

  Respect, Attitude, Green

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• None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

  Noel Gallagher

  College, Doe, Different

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• It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

  Nina Gordon

  Magazines, Music Business

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