Outsiders Quotes

Inside I'll always be an outsider

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.

I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in Thailand and I'll ask if they've seen my films and they'll say, "No, but I know who you are and I like the way you look - I like the skinhead look."

I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?

I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.