Members Quotes - Page 36

• Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists:  Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Religious, Art, Passionate

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• We've also started promoting in Japan, and compared to TVXQ sunbaes, we still have to secure a place. We all like TVXQ very much. We hope this time we'll use the chance to become more intimate with the members.

  Taeyang

  Japan, Use, Tvxq

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• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Loneliness, Self Confidence

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• If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

  Sunny

  Tired, Firsts, Snsd

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Earth, Columbus

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• I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

  Nita Ambani

  Team, Too Much, Team Member

  "I feel sorry for Lalit Modi: Nita Ambani". NDTV interview, www.ndtv.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

  Wesley Pruden

  Math, Thinking, Government

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• When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Talking, Office

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• The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Men, Land

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.28, David M Gross

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• Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Light, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1378, Delphi Classics

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• We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Wind, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1502, Delphi Classics

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• Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789.

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• I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Thinking, Giving, Political

  Letter to Herbert Bryan, May 19, 1916.

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• Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed."

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, People, Political

  "District of Columbia v. Heller". United States Supreme Court, case 07-290, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 26, 2008.

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• In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Family, Understanding, Problem

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• Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need[.

  Paul the Apostle

  Thinking, Needs, Body

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• When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Doubt, Shade

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• Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Vices, Detection, Wrongdoing

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.12

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• The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Business, Organization, Soul And Body

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• Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

  Colin Powell

  Race, Groups, Sake

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• Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

  Richard Ebeling

  Government, Peaceful, Criminals

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• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Party, Cutting

  "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Almost every organization... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Organization, Two, Frowning

  KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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• I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

  P. D. James

  People, Alive, Clubs

  P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Men, Class

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, 1938.

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