Quotes About Being Alienated

#1. Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#2. The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

Dana Rohrabacher

#4. Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

Joshua Ferris

#5. To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Kevin Kwan

#6. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

#7. Being young is hard. I was so isolated and alienated when I was young. All I wanted was a friend. I want the world to be different for young Auties than it was for me.

Jeanette Purkis

#8. Get on my back. My enchantments wont hold them off for long.

Candace Knoebel

#9. I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

Troy Polamalu

#10. Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Dave Goldberg

#11. About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

Michael Ayrton

#12. Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.

Sadie Calvano

#13. Being lonely does not mean that we are abnormal, love-starved, oversexed, or alienated. Perhaps all it means is that we are incurably human and sensitive to the fact that God made us for an ecstatic togetherness in a body with divine love and with all other persons of sincere will.

Ronald Rolheiser

#14. But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

John Harvey Kellogg

#15. It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#16. No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?

Alexandra Bracken

#17. I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

Teresa Of Avila

#18. But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.

Nelson DeMille

#19. To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.

Erich Fromm

#20. I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.

Young Jean Lee

#21. It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.

Pete Ploszek

#22. There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Mark Shields