Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

Henri Nouwen

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Henri Nouwen

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

Hawa Abdi

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Helene D. Gayle

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Helen Clark

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Maggie Stiefvater

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

John Maynard Keynes

Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

John Major

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.

Josiah Royce

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Kofi Annan

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

Kofi Annan

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Ramana Maharshi

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Paula Poundstone

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Peter Senge

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

Peter Piot

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

Robert Higgs

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Individuals take part less often in voluntary community activities and more often in belligerent political contests. Genuine communities cannot breathe in the poisonous atmosphere of redistributional politics.

Ron Fournier

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

Samina Baig

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

Umberto Eco

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Rodney Mullen

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Robyn Carr

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Rob Wittman

Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.

Richard Benjamin

I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.

Thomas Browne

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Ruth Benedict

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

Roger Daltrey

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Rush Limbaugh

The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich.