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Quotes About Community

WELCOME TO LUCKY HARBOR! Home to 2,100 lucky people And 10,100 shellfish
~ Jill Shalvis
I need you to come to yoga with me tomorrow and pretend to be my friend." "What? Why?" "It's bring-a-friend week, and if I do, I get twenty percent off next month's fees, so . . . you're up.
~ Jill Shalvis
Everyone needs something else once in a while. There's no shame in that.
~ Jill Shalvis
I'm a lesbian. I'm not dead.
~ Jill Shalvis
Just because you've never felt like you fit in doesn't mean anything's wrong with you. It means you haven't found your place yet.
~ Jill Shalvis
Help out her grandma and also learn to be social with something other than her laptop and vibrator while she was at it.
~ Jill Shalvis
To the best readers on the planet—romance readers! I'm grateful to each one of you every single day.
~ Jill Shalvis
Moving together in time also made them feel members of a harmonious
~ Unknown
Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed.
~ Jim Burke
Star Trek?" I asked her. "Really?" "What?" she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. "There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly," I said. "Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking." She sniffed. "This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both." "Blasphemy and lies," I said.
~ Jim Butcher
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.
~ Jim Butcher
Polka will never die.
~ Jim Butcher
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
~ Jim Butcher
In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd.
~ Jim Butcher
When a group comes together around something they love," I said, "it changes things. It changes how they see one another. It becomes a community. Something greater than the sum of its parts.
~ Jim Butcher
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another
~ Jim Butcher
This is bigger than me," he said finally. "It's bigger than polka, even. So I guess I'll help.
~ Jim Butcher
There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.
~ Jim Butcher
Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered.
~ Jim Butcher
For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.
~ Jim Butcher
We're all imaginary friends to one another
~ Jim Butcher
At the end of the day, the greatest power Harry has is in lifting up the people around him.
~ Jim Butcher
You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life." Isana
~ Jim Butcher