Badged Quotes & Sayings

And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves? — Joseph McElroy

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal. — Rafael Yglesias

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; - it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once - a parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none. — Charles Dickens

We failed to learn from the stories that warned us that if we create environments that perpetuate poverty, that force the people in them to beg and steal, the we're equally to blame for many of their outcomes — Ginger Scott

Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature.The word 'belonging' holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: Being and Longing, the longing of our Being and the being of our Longing. — John O'Donohue

I eat a lot of pizza and really unhealthy food. — Bella Hadid

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul. — Carl Jung

Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk. — Anais Nin

Man - a figment of God's imagination. — Mark Twain

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. — Peter O'Toole

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper. — Micah Lexier

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old. — Bill Mumy

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books — Mencius

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. — Max Allan Collins