Labels Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  13 Copy quote

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

  Nina Gordon

  Magazines, Music Business

  7 Copy quote

• Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

  Garth Fagan

  Dance, Thinking, Creative

  9 Copy quote

• And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Japan, Names

  6 Copy quote

• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, World

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Atheist, Men, Hungry

  4 Copy quote

• What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Hate, Home

  "MUHAMMAD ALI DEFENDS HIS RELIGION Says Islam is for peace" by Lisa L. Colangelo, Clem Richardson, www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2001.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspiring, Autism, Personality

  13 Copy quote

• The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

  Pink

  Badass, Bad Ass, Giving

  11 Copy quote

• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

  40 Copy quote

• Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

  Drake

  Humble, Names, Want

  Song: Forever

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  George Meany

  Struggle, Pieces, Unions

  21 Copy quote

• Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

  John Ortberg

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Names

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source