Quotes About Labeling

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

When we become aware that we are thinking, we say to ourselves, "thinking," with an unbiased attitude and with tremendous gentleness. Then we return our focus to the breath. We regard the thoughts as bubbles and the labeling like touching them with a feather. There's just this light touch—"thinking"—and they dissolve back into the space.

Every time your stream of thoughts solidifies into a heavy story line that seems to be taking you elsewhere, label that "thinking." Then you will be able to see how all the passion that's connected with these thoughts, or all the aggression or all the heartbreak, is simply passing memory. If even for a second you actually had a full experience that it was all just thought, that would be a moment of full awakening.

Because that's really something I can't stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.

Je suppose que quelqu'un, quelque part, le connaît - l'a baptisé ainsi, l'a gueulé dans l'escalier à l'heure du petit-déj

S]he hardly deserved to be labeled a witch.' 'I find it hard to believe anyone could take such a thing seriously. This isn't the Dark Ages.' 'All ages are dark, Hayden,' Grey said gently.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

I hate being labeled, I wish people would just think of me as me for once instead of some stupid stereotype, I've had this my whole life.

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

People cannot have an opinion without being labeled a 'hater!' That is complete and utter BS!

I have a fear of being labeled as 'thirsty.' So I just stick to myself.

He will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, often at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Being labeled is like being judged for life. It is like your future is laid out already.

Being labeled is like being told, "Everybody has a group they belong to, and if you don't go in the group, society will hate you either way..."

Walsh had labeled every cassette as to subject. He separated them into four categories

This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.

Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.