Quotes About Labels

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Back home they call me the tie-dye shirt kid. Well, that and faggot.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

I'd rather be called 'Sleazy' than to be identified as intelligent.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

While the effects of negative labels such as "lazy" and "stupid" may be more obvious, even a positive or an apparently neutral label such as "cook" limits our perception of the totality of another person's being.

The doctors at Hayden may have erred about the details of her condition. They need their labels, their certainties. What are depression and psychosis, after all, but lapses from realism? And what's that? But the doctors were right about the general crisis. An insufficient God is better than no God at all.

From now on, I'm telling everyone I meet I'm in insurance. Or I'm a car dealer. Better yet—a Republican. That way, when they accuse me of doing the Devil's work, at least there will be some validity to their claims.

Even though I've been married for eight years, I do separate my food in the refrigerator from my wife's. I put labels on it that say 'This is Will's leftover chicken' or whatever. And if you touch it, yeah, I get livid.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

Regrettably, we live in a society that has become habituated to the quick-fix solutions that are implied in pathologizing labels such as "depression," "anxiety," "bad marriage," "bad job." At times, of course, these classifications are useful, at least for diagnostic purposes.

In many ways, commonplace ratings such as "normal/abnormal" and "acceptable/unacceptable" hamper the gifted person who requires not either/or dichotomies but an accepting,

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

cunt   The worst thing humans can be called is their point of origin. This says a lot.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

Irrespective of their birth labels and belief tables, my blessings to all those who feel themselves to be oppressed, depressed and suppressed from any cause whatsoever!

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

Labels make death and disease easier to handle. They apply makeup to tragedy's face.

But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response." When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer.

It's easy to avoid added phosphorus in processed foods—just don't buy anything containing ingredients with the word "phosphate" in their names, including pyrophosphate and sodium triphosphate.87 With meat, it's more difficult to determine the phosphate content, as producers aren't required to disclose injected additives.

Unless it's specifically labeled Ceylon cinnamon, a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon even a few times a week may be too much for small children, and a daily teaspoon would exceed the tolerable upper safety limit for adults.111