#labels

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#labels #promises #reality #silence #soul

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#cast #challenge #confront #ensure #labels

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. ↗

— Geoffrey Holder

#am #everyone #fight #free #free spirit

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— Stacy London

#self-esteem #style #warning-labels #dreams

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels. ↗

— Josh Silver

#bunch #considering #continue #deals #decide

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#everyone #future #go #going #i

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#canned #feeling #food #i #i am

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#always #canned #categorized #day #felt

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. ↗

— Adam Jones

#based #bigger #building #company #could

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#french-fries #government #labels #freedom