Quotes About Community

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.

Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of "Sailing": 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little melodramatic, and that if anyone should sing it, it is Arsenal. Every Arsenal fan, the youngest and the oldest, is aware that no one likes us, and every day we hear that dislike reiterated.

So, as she walked down the stairs into the club, she was looking forward to a seething, teeming, wriggling, wiggling throng of dancers, many of whom she'd recognize: she wanted to see former pupils, local shopkeepers, museum regulars, all of whom would look at her as if to say, Here we are! What kept you?

We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers.

We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it.

you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into a camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe this character then?

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So

Taking your husband's name when you became his wife was one thing. Taking your town's name when you became its beauty queen was something else again.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character them? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge.

He still wanted his community to be the place where he lived, a community which contained old white women, young Muslim men, Lithuanian kids, mixed-race girls, Asian parents

This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long.

And what I thought was, you could probably go into any church anywhere in the world and see a middle-aged woman, no husband in sight, pushing a young lad in a wheelchair. It was one of the reasons churches were invented, probably.

When Will had conceived this fantasy and joined SPAT [Single Parents - Alone Together] he had imagined sweet little children, not children who would be able to track him down and come to his house.

Ä°ÅŸte ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi, hem de her gün. Ama kimse beni dinlemek, anlamak istemiyor. Kendimi iyi, neÅŸeli hissetmeliyim onlara göre. Her gün Tom Jones dinlemeliyim mesela, ya da ÅŸu dizide oynayan Avusturalyal? k?z?. Ama ne yapay?m, ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi iÅŸte. Radyoda ruh halime uygun ÅŸeyler çalm?yorlar tabii. Kederliysen toplumun d???nda kal?yorsun.

It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.

Bagaimana kau bisa membuat sebuah keluarga jika tak ada seorang pun berada disisimu, kau tahu, untuk membantumu?

My favourites are I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, Large-Hearted Boy, Aquarium Drunkard, When You Awake and Funky 16 Corners, among scores of others. (Some

You could refuse to care about fashion if you wanted to, but if you were going to spend all your time in the company of with - it people, you needed to know when they were laughing at you.

Noi che viviamo in questo quartiere e con questo reddito crediamo molto al potere delle parole: leggiamo, parliamo, scriviamo, abbiamo terapisti e consulenti e persino sacerdoti che sono felici di starci a sentire e dirci che cosa fare.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I