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Quotes About Community

DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen. It was one of those days when a man feels good, feels like speaking to his neighbor, is glad to live in a country like ours, and proud of his government. You know what I mean, one of those rare days when
~ Wilson Rawls
This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he'd be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.
~ Unknown
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
~ Winston Churchill
If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.
~ Winston Graham
Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.
~ Winston Graham
Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
~ Winston Graham
They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity.
~ Winston Graham
On all counts I've let these people down. I came among them a stranger and a physician. I have met with nothing worse than suspicion and much that's been better than kindness. Eggs that could be ill spared pressed on me in return for some fancied favor. Little gestures of goodwill even from people who are Choake's people. Confidence and trust. In return I have helped to break up the life of one of their number. If I went now I should go for good, a cheat and a failure.
~ Winston Graham
To them the mine was a benevolent Moloch to whom they fed their children at an early age and from whom they took their daily bread.
~ Winston Graham
All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes
~ Winston S. Churchill
compulsory duty on every male German reaching the age of twenty. For six months he would have to serve his country, constructing roads, building barracks, or draining marshes, thus fitting him physically and morally for the crowning duty of a German citizen, service with the armed forces.
~ Winston S. Churchill
If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They're going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]
~ Winston S. Churchill
It has been well said that wherever there are three Jews it will be found that there are two Prime Ministers and one leader of the Opposition.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The Home Guard overtopped the million mark, and when rifles were lacking grasped lustily the shotgun, the sporting rifle, the private pistol, or, when there was no firearm, the pike and the club. No Fifth Column existed in Britain, though a few spies were carefully rounded up and examined. What few Communists there were lay low. Everyone else gave all they had to give.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Few facts are so encouraging to the student of human development as the desire, which most men and all communities manifest at all times, to associate with their actions at least the appearance of moral right.
~ Winston S. Churchill
No community embarks on a great enterprise without fortifying itself with the belief that from some points of view its motives are lofty and disinterested. It is an involuntary tribute, the humble tribute of imperfect beings, to the eternal temples of Truth and Beauty.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Vadinas, varomoji j?ga yra ne individo s?žin?, o santykis, atsirad?s tarp jo ir kit? žmoni?. Ne tod?l blogai elgiam?s, kad sunaikinome savyje Diev?, o tod?l, kad Dievas ir net Šetonas tampa nesvarb?s, nes sankcij? veiksmui suteikia kitas žmogus.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Nago??, phoszÄ™ paÅ"stwa, jest demagogiczna, jest wphost socjalistyczna, bo i có? by byÅ'o, gdyby gmin odkhyÅ', ?e nasza dupa taka sama?!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.
~ Woody Allen
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.
~ Woody Allen
No work of art can compare to a city.
~ Woody Allen
La bisessualità raddoppia immediatamente le tue chances al sabato sera.
~ Woody Allen