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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. -- Ang Lee
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. -- George Henry Lewes
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. -- Thomas Jefferson
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. -- Sophocles
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.' -- John Ridley
Police do not belong in war zones. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. -- Alvar Aalto
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen. -- William Wyler
I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here. -- Harry Anderson
Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them. -- Antonio Banderas
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. -- Marlee Matlin
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. -- Novalis
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself. -- Indra Devi
The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party. -- Chen Shui-bian
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. -- Gilda Radner
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. -- Jinato Hu
It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to. -- Edwin Starr
World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. -- Dalai Lama
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. -- Anthony Trollope
The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'. -- Asa Larsson
Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes. -- Phoebe Stone
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. -- Anthony Minghella
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East. -- Orhan Pamuk
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. -- Warsan Shire
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi. -- Konrad Lorenz
She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. -- D. H. Lawrence
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. -- Henri Bergson
Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging. -- Brene Brown
Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians. -- Pope Francis
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. -- BrenÃ© Brown
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. -- Norbert Wiener
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. -- Greg Boyle
Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind's delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in. -- M.F. Moonzajer
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera. -- Thomas Aquinas
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what weâ??re talking about. -- David Hume
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race. -- Bette Midler
A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us -- P. C. Cast
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. -- Orson Scott Card
The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. -- Brene Brown
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. -- Brene Brown
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. -- Brene Brown

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