Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy L. Sayers

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dalai Lama

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Dalai Lama

Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

Dalai Lama

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

Dalai Lama

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

Dolores Huerta

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

Dick Murphy

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

David Whyte

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

Dani Shapiro

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

Daisaku Ikeda

A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system.

Condoleezza Rice

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

Condoleezza Rice

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

Condoleezza Rice

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

Dante Alighieri

I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.

Dan Fouts

First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.

Dan Lipinski

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

Cornel West

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Cormac McCarthy

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

Common

Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.

David Simon

We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

Coretta Scott King

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,

Dallas Willard

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

Dave Matthews

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

Amartya Sen

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Amartya Sen

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Angelique Kidjo

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

Anthony Braxton

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

David Wallace

I would support anything that will help the community to grow. Where there is a vacant lot, I would love to see development. I would love to see more retail. I would love to see more homes.

Kennedy the Cop was a great, great character. He was the definition of community policing before it was a big deal.