Groups Quotes - Page 28

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I dont have any finished songs lying around.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.

Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.