Quotes tagged ‘Community’

“That’s the thing about family, you don’t get to choose when you want to be a part of it.”

— Cameron Litvack, Caleb Haas, Graham Rogers, imdb.com

“A man is only ever as strong as the people around him: The community he serves and the family he is sworn to protect. Whatever strength he has, he draws from them. And for them, he must be prepared to give everything. His life for his blood, or else everything he has done, has been for nothing. He i…”

— Frank Spotnitz, John Smith, Rufus Sewell, imdb.com

“Rashad: This is our change to make a difference, and it starts now. Ghost: And opportunity to rebuilt this community, the community I grew up in? Come on, I couldn't be more excited. I'm ready to get both these hands dirty. Rashad: That's what I want to hear! Listen, if we don't get rid of these dru…”

— Monica Mitchell, James 'Ghost' St. Patrick, Omari Hardwick, imdb.com

“You're gonna think it's funny, but I always wanted to work for the post office. And be a mailman. I like that you get to see the same people every day. Bring 'em that check they've been waiting for. Presents for Christmas. You know, be part of the community.”

— Noah Hawley, Gus Grimly, Colin Hanks, imdb.com

“This is a community. People watch each other's backs. Someone gets sick, someone dies, you bring a casserole, help.”

— Noah Hawley, Ari Ziskind, Byron Noble, imdb.com

“The community of the saints is not an ‘ideal’ community consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness....Sancti…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community....Let him who is not in community beware of being alone....Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perish…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“I think it's just a healthy way to be, that you're not a liability to the planet and that you're doing something positive. It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.”

— Eddie Vedder, avclub.com

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to d…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The reason veterans have a hard time coming home isn't because there's something inherently flawed about the transition process. It's because there's nothing to come home to. There's a society that's barely glued together and bitterly fractured.”

— Sebastian Junger, military.com

“Humans don’t survive alone in nature; they die — and as a result, we are all hardwired to belong to groups. But the only way to guarantee membership in a group is to be needed by it, so being unneeded can feel catastrophic.”

— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.com

“It’s less about a specific a policy or program that the development community is creating, it’s more about what women are creating for themselves.”

— Melinda Gates, fortune.com

“One of the most important benefits of reaching out to others is learning that the experiences that make us feel the most alone are actually universal experiences.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“I know that the Union is stronger a thousand times than all the wild and chimerical schemes of social change which are generated one after another in the unstable minds of visionary sophists and interested agitators.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“There is a togetherness in the low-grade annoyances, the permission to share that fleeting intolerance, the striving for something better, the simultaneous ungratefulness and optimism of, “Eh, could be better.”

— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com

“The permission to be fed up with each other is the highest mark, to me, of intimacy and trust.”

— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com

“The casual anonymity is another facet, the adjacent face of the diamond of intimacy, the way small talk and cute sayings on mugs of coffee are joyously cynical, like how standard it is for spouses to joke about hating each other, or for parents to mockingly roll their eyes about their kids.”

— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com

“The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.”

— Benjamin Harrison, top10-best.com