Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog. —Thomas Huxley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger. —Anne Sexton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry. —J. B. Priestley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, it is better to be a good bourgeois like the others than a bad bohemian, a false aristocrat, or a second-rate intellectual. —Albert Camus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. —Cary Grant More about this quote Tags: imagination identity transformation pretend Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who is "ill-adjusted to the world" is always on the point of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. —Colin Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. —Ivan Turgenev More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sigmund Freud was so fond of smoking that he was somewhat irritated when men around him did not smoke. Consequently nearly all who formed the inner circle became more or less passionate cigar smokers. —Hans Sachs More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. —Clifford Odets More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. —W. C. Fields More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email