Groups Quotes - Page 52

I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

I was very fortunate. I had a great group of friends in my life, and family, and so I felt a sense of safety and belonging that ... as you grow older, you realize that not everybody does feel that. And there's particular certain groups of kids who always feel like outsiders. But I was very fortunate.

There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the only woman ever to apply for group alimony. Never got a dinner!

During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.

Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.