Outsiders Quotes

Inside I'll always be an outsider

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.