Quotes About Unity

People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet -- ten really sweet kids! Have twelve! What if there were 48 pro baseball teams, you could see a damn lot more games! And in this fashion we get away from tragedy. Because tragedy comes when someone gets too special.

Don't think it, in it.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

scattering Babel's inhabitants and putting an abrupt end to the first global community.

This is no accident. Satan's attack on marriages and the family is real and relentless. As someone has said, "When you get married, that's when the war begins.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

And so Lennon-McCartney stood shoulder to shoulder as equals, connected at every level, their considerable talents harmonized, their personalities meshed, their drive unchecked, their goal in focus. They were a union, stronger than the sum of their parts, and everything was possible.

John, Paul and George had been ultraclose since schooldays, sharing everything from outlook to income. They were of one mind on life, and all the stronger for arriving at their unanimity from individual perspectives. Ringo knew he had to tune in, as would they to him.

The romantic wants to create a world where he or she will possess a fully integrated, unconflicted identity—where the answers to the questions Who am I? and What are we? are exactly the same.

We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.

The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common goals and strategies. They oblige everyone to think, or at least speak, about the common good. In movement politics, the forces are all centrifugal, encouraging splits into smaller and smaller factions obsessed with single issues and practicing rituals of ideological one-upmanship.

A citizen, simply by virtue of being a citizen, is one of us. We have stood together to defend the country against foreign adversaries in the past. Now we must stand together at home to make sure that none of us faces the risk of being left behind. We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.

Men of conscience have got to join together, Jack. Or nothing is going to change.

Expecting the best is not about always being right. It is about a belief in yourself and in your team.

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

simultaneously

And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.

single political party and ideology, they not only destroy their own purpose but threaten the existence of a free republic.

Gone are the days when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."48

Circles are tightly knit groups of wraiths that have banded together for mutual defense against slavers and Spectres. The cirlce is a fundamental unit of Shadowlands wraith society. In many ways, a wraith's circle takes the place of family.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.