Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serge Lang

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Sean Duffy

For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

Michael Polanyi

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

Michael Porter

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Pollan

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

Michael Pollan

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

Michael Pollan

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Sherrod Brown

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

Seth Rogen

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Tom Hiddleston

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Michelle Tea

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Michael Shermer

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Norman Jewison

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

John W. Gardner

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

Nina Jacobson

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

John Ruskin

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

Mark Sanchez

The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.

Marilynne Robinson

When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

Plato

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Philip Slater

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

Paulo Freire

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

Peter Drucker

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Megan Hilty

I essentially get to represent my community on television.

Mary Antin

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

Martin Yan

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Michael Connelly

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Michael J. Fox

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

Marie Osmond

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Mariel Hemingway

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

Margaret J. Wheatley

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.