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Quotes About Membership

I'm even a member of the APMA. American Potion Makers Association.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.
~ David Novak
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.
~ Thom Tillis
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.
~ Benjamin Wittes
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
~ Erma Bombeck
I am upset at the way I was removed... With a heavy heart, I resign from the primary membership of the AAP.
~ Gurpreet Ghuggi
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
By the mid-1920s, there were more Klansmen, per capita, in Oregon than any state but Indiana.
~ Timothy Egan
Nationwide, the Klan had expanded to nearly three million members, and most of the growth was in the Northern states, Steve's domain—Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. Out West, Colorado and Oregon were adding to their Klan rolls just as quickly.
~ Timothy Egan
Roses belong to the set R
~ Timothy Gowers
The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
~ Kate Reardon
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
~ Ogden Nash
The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement was a bilateral one between ourselves and Ireland and did not involve the E.U. at all. It just presupposed common E.U. membership as a facilitator of its successful operation.
~ Dominic Grieve
To receive Christ is not accomplished through church membership, nor by outer ritual of acknowledging Jesus as one's savior but never knowing him in reality by contacting him in meditation. To know Christ signifies to close the eyes, expand the consciousness and so deepen the concentration that through the inner light of soul intuition one partakes of the same consciousness that Jesus had.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The Masons are not a secret society... they are a society with secrets
~ Dan Brown
The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting you clean as a whistle when you are not of any more use.
~ Wendell Berry
What is the point of labor saving if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)
~ Wendell Berry
Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)
~ Wendell Berry
A creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members.
~ Wendell Berry
it.The organized church comes immediately under a compulsion to think of itself, and identify itself to the world, not as an institution synonymous with its truth and its membership, but as a hodgepodge of funds, properties, projects, and offices, all urgently requiring economic support.
~ Wendell Berry
And in the fields and the town, walking, standing, or sitting under the trees, resting and talking together in the peace of a sabbath profound and bright, are people of such beauty that he weeps to see them. He sees that these are the membership of one another and of the place and of the song or light in which they live and move.
~ Wendell Berry
Until our states become members of a large and effectively protective group they will continue to act like individuals and families in the hunting stage.
~ Will Durant
As the jackpot got seriously going, after the first wave of pandemics, without EU membership to buffer anything, England started looking a lot like a competitive control area.
~ William Gibson