Nonbelongers Quotes

#1. Like all belongers, [they] don't notice how easily they slip into groups, lines, ranks, gangs, but we nonbelongers we know what we are alright.

David Mitchell

#2. In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

Salman Rushdie

#3. The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Cassandra Clare

#4. This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now.

Louise Penny

#5. If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Dagobert D. Runes

#6. I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

David Brooks

#7. I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. [Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.

Georg Simmel

#9. The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.

Bryant McGill

#10. I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#11. The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

W. H. Auden

#12. I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

#13. When we are able to let go of the worry, let it float away like a feather in the wind, we free ourselves of further burden and open the door to all that is right for us.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh

Kanye West

#15. Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

David Seabury