Quotes About Community

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behaviour. It's pure biology.

Le interessa sconfiggere la solitudine e non perdere tempo a capire che in questo schifo di mondo niente vale un centesimo se non abbiamo qualcuno con cui condividerlo.

Chi ama appartenere a un gregge deve avere qualcosa della pecora.

yet there are days when I feel that a certain brightness is tentatively returning to Barcelona, as if between us all we'd driven it out but it had forgiven us in the end.

tertulia literaria los viernes por la noche a la que no me invitaba porque sabía que todos los asistentes, poetastros frustrados y lameculos que le reían

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

El mundo no es el lugar amoral que has conocido hasta ahora, Alicia. El mundo es simplemente un espejo de quienes lo formamos y no es ni más ni menos que lo que hacemos de él entre todos. Por eso las personas que, como tú y como yo, nacemos con un don tenemos la responsabilidad de utilizarlo por lo bien de los demás. El mío es saber reconocer el talento en otros y guiarlos para que llegado el momento puedan tomar la decisión adecuada.

En Barcelona habitan más de un millón de personas, pero a la hora de la verdad apenas unas cuatrocientas son las que guardan las llaves de todas las puertas. Y esta es una ciudad de puertas cerradas donde todo depende de quién tiene la llave, a quién se le abre y en qué lado del umbral se queda uno.

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip.

That's your problem. You try to be like everyone else. Everyone is unique here. They won't like you unless you be your own person.

You've had your tantrum. Now come back inside, and we'll talk like civilized people. You don't want to cause a scene in front of the neighbors.

I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest speech in the world and [they are] gentle and always laughing

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

Everyone seated at the table stared at Mimi and the kids. They did not speak nor give them any form of recognition or welcome to join them. How dangerous can a grandmother and four kids look? Christina whispered to Alex, who giggled.

When you were steadily dating a boy, as she was Reeve, and this was known to everybody, it freed you up to be friends with boys.

Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.

baked pineapple cheese casserole—it sounds strange, but it's a delicious dish; I always bring it to church suppers; you take two sixteen-ounce cans of diced pineapple, add brown sugar, a stick of butter, and a pack of shredded cheese, give it a topping of buttered crushed Ritz crackers, and serve it hot, and it's sort of a dessert and sort of a side dish—

Kahnawake April 20, 1704 Temperature 56 degrees Mercy's only hope for friendship was Nistenha's cousin's daughter, Snow Walker, who was a frequent visitor and pleasant enough. But Indians were less likely to talk for the sake of talk and Snow Walker hardly talked at all. Snow Walker for a friend would be like a fence post for a friend.

a trouble shared is a trouble halved'.

A stranger in a small community is always an object of keen interest and he had seen more than one curtain twitch as he passed by.

In a community as small as Badger's Drift, everyone will know what you're about. Someone who has killed once and who thinks he can protect himself by killing a second time will not hesitate to do so. And don't forget'—he turned and they walked together towards the exit—'that if Miss Simpson knew the murderer very well, so do you.

We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most. Women

She was thoroughly entrenched in her wounds, so much so that she had converted her wounds into a type of social currency

Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and "one body," will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives.