Quotes About Outsider

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

The Essence and Character of a People, his overriding message was that Judaism is an "eternal countercultural." In his book, Hertzberg declares, "Abraham, the first Jew, is the archetypal Jewish character. As the leader of a small, dissenting minority living precariously on the margins of society, he defines the enduring role of the Jew as the outsider. The recurring themes of Jewish history—otherness, defiance, fragility, and morality—are present in his life.

I suppose we were drawn to each other because neither of us quite fitted in.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Texan bluntness by Lyndon Johnson: with a certain kind of man, you'd rather have him 'on the inside pissing out than on the outside pissing in

Capital may have no country, as Marx argued, but the lower classes not only have countries but cling to them. Economic issues and cultural issues merge, fear of the outsider rises, and the result is political pressure from the Right. This is not confined only to the failing countries. It is there in northern European countries as well, even Germany. Or the United States.

Monachopsis. It means a subtle but nagging feeling of not fitting in and knowing that you don't belong in the place you are.

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

Remember that when an employee enters your office, he is in a strange land.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

TV is a medium where I've been an outsider for the most part.

Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family reunion, but it's not your family. So you don't belong - they're being nice to you, but you don't fit in completely; you don't know everybody's story. You don't have a history.

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Then Cameron Ramsey showed up, all sexy and quiet. None of us even know why he's in here. He definitely doesn't fit. I mean, the kid drives a BMW.

When you're coming from outside London, you know, you better be something special if you expect people to take you seriously. I broke the mould; I made it possible.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.

The great thing about the comedy world is that everybody is somewhat of an outsider. That's the community where outsiders feel like they're insiders.

I would like to clarify that I have never begged for work though I am an outsider. Nor do I have sources who call up film-makers and pitch me for projects.

your trouble is you. you came and get to know the facts, which were not for you .now till end you will claim your share in to the story, will remain as outsider

Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.

These may seem irrational to an outsider who defines rationality in terms of what he can explain.