Together Quotes - Page 18

• Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Law

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• Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

  Riccardo Muti

  Communication, Heart, Differences

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• I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

  John Dingell

  President

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• The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.

  John Cornyn

  Running, Rights, Government

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• Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Taught, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment-a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of man’s nature—is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Effort, Mind

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

  Ayn Rand

  Joy, Growing, Admiration

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

  Thomas Sowell

  Religious, Leader, Vision

  "Ending Slavery". townhall.com. February 08, 2005.

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• It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.

  Norbert Wiener

  Running, Simple, Numbers

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

  Paul Virilio

  Tribes, Regions

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• What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Cutting, Past, World

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Modernity”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Spiritual, Safety

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• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

  John Flavel

  Beautiful, Eye, Pieces

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• God is the nest we build together.

  Gene Wolfe

  Nests

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• The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

  John Lyly

  Broken, Stronger, Bones

  Euphues

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• People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.

  Brandon Boyd

  Smart, Stupid, Sheep

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Dream, Eye

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Connections, Doe

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.411, Pan Macmillan

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• Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

  Mary Oliver

  Trying, Want, Too Much

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• If we can stay with the tension of
  opposites long enough —sustain it,
  be true to it—we can sometimes
  become vessels within which the
  divine opposites come together and
  give birth to a new reality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Reality, Opposites, Long

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• My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

  Martin Kippenberger

  Personality, Decision, Style

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• I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

  John Lydon

  Effort, Records

  Interview with John Semley, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

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• So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

  Kent Conrad

  Filibuster, Justify, Hard

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• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Working Together, Needs, Saving

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