Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

This will be a police facility soon, but as a hospital it served the community very well for many years and the service here was appreciated,

This will be a nice transition. It's good to have someone in the community coaching.

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.

We are shocked and outraged by the nature and magnitude of this vandalism. Hate crimes like this one have the potential to polarize a school community and lead members of the targeted community to feel marginalized and insecure.

To think that there are four suites to be used as one is just fuzzy math. It wasn't in the spirit of the deal and it isn't what the community wanted.

To think a community this size could do something this great is truly remarkable.

To the community of Huntington, thanks for putting this together, and we're looking forward to a great time.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Without those guys there, that site wouldn't operate. They work together and that means a lot for the community. They have that camaraderie. Everyone knows what to expect of each other.

The program is open to churches, community groups, or whoever has the time. We need to match volunteers with the needy in order to help keep them independent.

There are pros and cons to everything. but I feel like with a private community, they have more say of what goes on in the community than in a city.

With a coordinator we can get off the ground and really start working on a larger scale to do what we can in the community to make it a better place,

Doug Collins

Everywhere we go, the running community has just embraced this as something Reno has needed for a long time. Marathon runners, for the most part, if they wanted to run a course on roads, had to leave this area.

James Hyde

Faith is more complex than belief. It involves an individual's relation to a community and engagement with ideas that are larger than the self.

But sharing is not going to get any easier if there is more theater. We do want community theater. We want good, strong, positive community theater... it is really not a financial consideration. For us it's a space allocation issue.

But police still need to foster a sense of cooperation with the community while retaining that security.

But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.

But I want to thank them folks for coming. We couldn't live in a better community.

Peter Fonda

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

The governor has said 'no' to our rights, and so our community needs to turn out and say 'no' to him. We're going to work very hard to make sure the community sends a message.

E. B. White

The good news is we've been meeting with police for months in preparation of these new schools. We're also engaging the community, because it will take the community to keep those kids safe.

The good news is this community knows it has a problem, and it is taking it head on,

The government wants the parties to fall into its trap and also to show the international community that it is serious about elections.

Pat Mitchell

TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.

We were going to put this money toward the senior trip but we don't have to worry about luxury on a senior trip when we have people who just lost a father and a husband. And the community lost a firefighter. We thought it would be good of us to do this. It's been a rewarding experience for us.