Quotes About Community

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

Loners can play well with others-the right others

America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming.

Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living.

The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community's values.

Cada vez que prestamos un título, cada vez que preguntamos algo en relación con él, cada vez que decimos "Si te ha gustado ese, seguro que te gustará este" nos transformamos —por arte de magia— en esa sociedad literaria.

But after a while, Miri noticed that none of the smiling people ever looked at her. Their eyes moved from Ray and Robbie on one side to Nell and Nora on the other, slipping right over Miri in the middle.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

Even research communities of highly intelligent and well-meaning individuals can fall prey to confirmation bias, as IQ is positively correlated with the number of reasons people find to support their own side in an argument

J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.

Nous sommes une communauté de désirs, non d'action

le Kaffeehaus plein d'Allemands, qui doivent y venir à cause du nom

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Good fences make good neighbors," wrote poet Robert Frost; likewise, good walls make good collaborators.

As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men walked there. Good men. People's dads. Those were only events, scattered in time. Draw them close, rub them between thumb and finger till they look like larvae, soften like silk, distend to knot, to weave. It takes a village to kill a child.

Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

It's a numbers gamein a dense urban area there are so many of us that even unintentional pollution would cause all the crap we see in the water.

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell "BINGO!"

We are the Ovaltineys, Little [or Happy] girls and boys.