Quotes About Labels

The thought you have will consume you, the love you feel is what dooms you. If the lies he's told has disabled you, you can walk away or accept what he has labeled you.

Im not the comeback girl, the awkward girl, the hipster girl, or the popular girl. I dont want a label unless its your girl.

I'd rather be labeled fake for being real then being praised as real and being fake.

I'd rather be labeled as 'fake' for being real, than be praised as 'real' for being fake.

Great people discuss eras, average people discuss trends, and small people discuss labels.

When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist

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

Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

You have to live in a world divided into Noughts and Crosses. A world where you will be biologically both and socially neither. Mixed race. Dual heritage. Labels to be attached.

And in a world desperate to pigeon-hole and categorize and stereotype, she may feel forced to come down on one side or the other. And the truth is, she's both. And the truth is, she's neither.

Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. [...] Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of up and down, good and bad, weak and strong, until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

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

Hele universet var endegyldigt forsynet med etiketter, ordnet, klassificeret. Frem for alt ikke ræsonnere, ikke tænke, ikke sætte spørgsmålstegn, det ville være det rene tidsspilde, da det alligevel ikke var muligt at nå frem til en anden klassifikation.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it!

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.

Life gives us unpleasant people, wonderful people, and everyone in between, so we can be who we are meant to be. Not someone who is formed, and molded by useless labels and stereotypes.

You can't be yourself in this world without being labeled.

If you would like food manufacturers to explain more about the chemical ingredients listed on food labels, take up this matter with your congressional representatives. Congress tells the FDA what to do.