Labels Quotes - Page 5

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting.

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

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.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped on a person. I don't have a problem with any of my "hyphenated" biography - I don't have any problem with that at all. The world would be a better place if our thread of hyphenation were truly embraced beyond mere naming and category.

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

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

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.