Quotes About Association

I was not deeply stirred by the Troubles, I had no allegiance

John D. MacDonald is a favorite of mine, especially his Travis McGee series

the typical classy gal at the cage

the man, Jeff, to step away from the airplane.

a horse eatin' corn," Butch piled on instantly. Raymond

As she watched it leave, she felt like the helpless victim in a backward country where the police ran rampant and rights were nonexistent. It was simply wrong. She was being bullied by the cops because of her association with Jeff. Now her property was being confiscated, and her clients' confidentiality was compromised. She had never felt so helpless.

reiterated Edward I's claim to the feudal overlordship of Scotland.

Cecil, who had always opposed a settlement with Mary

dearest sister," subject to a judicial examination of Henry VIII's will.

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

With Mary crowned queen, her mother could afford some fun and dalliance.

Mary was eating with a group of friends, including Rizzio.

Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.

My mother named me Adam, like you-know-who.

rape, Garp thought, made men feel guilty by association.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

The second factor contributing to speculative euphoria and programmed collapse is the specious association of money and intelligence.

Nothing in modern attitudes is believed more to signify exceptional intelligence than association with large pools of money. Only immediate experience with those so situated denies the myth.

Contributing to and supporting this euphoria are two further factors little noted in our time or in past times. The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. ... The second ... is the specious association of money and intelligence.

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

It is possible to see here again the constants in these matters. Associated with the wealth of the Banque Royale, Law was a genius—intelligence, as ever, derived from association with money. When the wealth dissolved and disappeared, he was a fugitive mercilessly reviled.

We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.