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Quotes About Social

I go out and give a speech and it's covered by CNN and nobody's watching, nobody cares. I tweet something and it's my megaphone to the world.
~ Bob Woodward
And therefore the exaltation of man over the rest of nature, the fashionable fussing over and worshipping of man, never appealed to them. Such false principles of social life, turned into politics, seemed to them pathetically homemade and remained incomprehensible.
~ Boris Pasternak
Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.
~ Brad Miner
But it is the same with all of us. In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows us, and Lord! how uncomfortable we become!
~ Susanna Clarke
Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.
~ Susanna Kaysen
summit of prosperity by persisting for centuries in the system of protection and prohibition."37 Indeed, in the end, it was not so much the new machines that revolutionized the world, impressive and important as they were. The truly heroic invention was the economic, social, and political institutions in which these machines were embedded.
~ Sven Beckert
What's your definition of dating? Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking
~ Sylvia Day
It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.
~ Sylvia Nasar
I hate saying anything to a group of people. When I talk to a group of people I always have to single out one and talk to him, and all the while I am talking I feel the others are peering at me and taking unfair advantage. I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say 'Fine'.
~ Sylvia Plath
if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.
~ Sylvia Plath
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing. Or is it an excuse for wanting to be alone and meditate alone, not having to brave a group of women? (Women in numbers has always disturbed me.)
~ Sylvia Plath
Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet - T S Eliot - used in The Book Of Peach
~ T S Eliot
Sabías que lo que ganan la mayoría de las personas no varía más allá de un 20% de la media de los ingresos de sus amigos más íntimos? Por eso sería mejor que vigilases con quién te relacionas y eligieses con cuidado con quién pasas tu tiempo.
~ T. Harv Eker
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
~ T.S.Eliot
Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread—and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious.
~ Tad Williams
I like people, see, I really do. I just don't like them much close up.
~ Tad Williams
Lynn wanted to say she was sorry, but she couldn't seem to speak around the foot in her mouth.
~ Tami Hoag
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
~ Tamora Pierce
At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been stripped from the afternoon.
~ Tamora Pierce
A bad name is just a fart with consonants.
~ Tamora Pierce
although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.
~ Tanya Huff
It is impossible to live in autarchy, to make the testimony of faith, pray and fast and go to pilgrimage only, far from men and worrying about no one except oneself. It is worth repeating that to be with God is tantamount to being with men; to carry faith is tantamount to carrying the responsibility of a continuous social commitment. The teaching that we should extract from zakat is explicit: to posses is tantamount to having to share.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.
~ Taylor Ellwood
The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life.
~ Temple Grandin