Labels Quotes

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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there… — C.D. Wright
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long… — Eckhart Tolle
People are too complicated to have simple labels. — Philip Pullman
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct… — Amy Tan
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all… — Gregory Maguire
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and… — Janet Fitch
What labels me, negates me. — Soren Kierkegaard
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell
Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak! — Tamora Pierce
So are you bisexual?â€ I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. â€œI guess I'm bipossible,â€ he had said. — Lisa Kleypas
I believe in such cartography â€“ to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. — Robert Bloch
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the… — Richard Dawkins
I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it?… — Aleksandar Hemon
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I… — Irvin D. Yalom
They stick you with those names, those labels -- â€˜rebelâ€™ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a… — Johnny Depp

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