Quotes About Community

problem shared is a problem halved.

The Zip Code is about the size of Chicago. With five people. But hey, welcome to Wyoming.

operation was for me. I had been in town less than a half-hour. The other five had probably been here all their lives. Any problem with any of them and an embarrassed sergeant would have shuffled in. He would be apologetic. He would mumble to them.

Reacher hadn't seen the guy before. Big hands, broad shoulders, a seamed face, clothes all covered with dirt. Chosen in some way, presumably, to be the point man. To be the spokesperson. The pick of the local litter, no doubt, according to popular acclaim.

a wanderer depends on the kindness of strangers. Not for anything specific or material. For morale.

Then she said Peter McCann had lived in her building for a good many years, and they had grown close, in a gruff and occasional and good-fences kind of a way.

before the doctors. Right here in Chicago. We

You know, a problem shared is a problem halved.

It was a trading post for a vast and dispersed agricultural community.

Grange Farm and Bishops Pargeter

A problem shared is a problem halved.

You know you've got a problem when baristas greet you by name. You know you've got another problem when it's the warmest social interaction of your day.

The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.

says he 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn't delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.

Your tribe is always bigger than you think.

Even as we sat, prying lids off milk bottles, we could hear the persecuted cooks banging around back in the kitchen, grandmas barking at each other, preparing the daily grotesque.

Let's hear it again! The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is Tell them about the time you . . .

Say I help people moving into our area find the right home.

You see, nobody gets to the top alone. Over the years, people who seem to have it all have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder they chose.

Loneliness is Europe's malaria, Rae said. No one can really be immune.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

People are leaving the church and going back to God.

Society is not possible if ancestral custom is not regarded as sacred as far as practice is concerned.