Quotes About Individuality

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

He was just someone who had grown ugly, old, and embittered, one of billions.

Twist and shout, métetelo donde te quepa... eso y no La Internacional era su himno.

Something was on top of him that had called a halt to him. Something had turned him into a human platitude. Something had warned him: You must not run counter to anything.

Guys with small dry lips, they turn me off, or if they smell bookish—you know, this dry pencil smell of men.

It had cost him dearly to clear a space where he could exist in the world as antagonistically as he liked.

You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As with any exaggerated trait that sets you apart and makes you exceptional—and enviable, and hateable—to accept your beauty, to accept its effect on others, to play with it, to make the best of it, you're well advised to develop a sense of humor.

You are the strangest child," she told me. "I had no idea," she said. "I didn't begin to know.

Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself.

God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote, "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

Some of us are born to a solitary life.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

I will own a cat and not fear being called a witch; I will dance and not fear being named a whore. I shall ride my horse and go where I please. I shall soar like a gyrfalcon. I shall live my own life and please myself. I shall be a free woman. It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

With this contradictory parentage of mine: solid English earth and French water goddess, one could expect anything from me. An enchantress or an ordinary girl. There are some who will say I am both.

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do.