#belong

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#because #believe #belong #constantly #felt

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anthropology #belongs #history #questions #sociology

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#being #belong #belongs #feel #i

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#belong #day #defend #doctrines #dying

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. ↗

— John Amery

#decision #forward #free #go #government