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Quotes About Cliques

Y lo peor de todo: si permites que las amistades pesen en el gobierno, pronto tendrás camarillas
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight little cliques on age grounds.
~ Edith Schaeffer
Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.
~ Elvis Mitchell
I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
~ John Cusack
Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.
~ Arthur McNallan
Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.
~ Tom Brokaw
There's always going to be cliques - everywhere you go, there's gonna be cliques; there's gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.
~ Colby Covington
Discernment is required as never before in an age of personal branding, in order that we do not accidentally find ourselves being a part of a 'knotwork' –a network with ego –which can be more cliques than authentic networks of people working towards a higher purpose for the good of all.
~ Simon Robinson
I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
~ Kelly Preston
In high school, I never felt in with the in-crowd.
~ Alan Colmes
There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.
~ Priyanka Chopra
Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'
~ Elvis Mitchell
And bookish people who do their homework and get it in on time and it's good - they don't have friends at school. I never really got in the cliques. I didn't have the right shoes or hair.
~ Sarah Millican
Each society demands of its members a certain amount of acting, the ability to present, represent, and act what one actually is. When society disintegrates into cliques such demands are no longer made of the individual but of members of cliques. Behavior then is controlled by silent demands and not by individual capacities, exactly as an actor's performance must fit into the ensemble of all other roles in the play.
~ Hannah Arendt
I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.
~ Aimee Teegarden
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
~ J. D. Salinger
It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
In the twenty-first century, the new autocracies in Russia and China have much in common with that of the tsars, run by tiny, opaque cliques, amassing vast wealth, while linked together through hierarchical client–patron relationships, all at the mercy of the whims of the ruler. In
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
~ Luis Fonsi
Adult suburbia can be a lot like high school.
~ Harlan Coben
The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.
~ Rachel Simmons
I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
~ Lorde
The cliques formed a shadow government in C-K, a moral parallel to the distracted formal rule of the Queen's Advisors. Clique elites moved behind the scenes, imitating their paragon Wellspring in deliberate webs of self-spun obfuscation. The forms of power and its realities had been gently disentangled.
~ Bruce Sterling
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.
~ Steve Buscemi