Association Quotes

• I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Society
  • Faithful
  • Talkers

• A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Prestige
  • Builds

• every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Silent

• I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

  

  Xeno Muller
  • School
  • Friend
  • Hands

• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Women
  • Association
  • Good Manners

• Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Challenges
  • Financial Crisis
  • ASEAN

• Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Enough

• That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • World
  • Great
  • Church

• Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Criticism
  • Clear
  • Pupils

• If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.

  

  Walter Block
  • Violence
  • Policy
  • Property

• The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Action
  • Wife
  • Watson

• Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

  

  Saadi
  • Good
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

  

  John Astin
  • Phenomenon
  • Feedback
  • Association

• Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Force
  • Hearing
  • Teste

• It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Player
  • Limits
  • League

• If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Idea

• Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • See
  • Born
  • Association

• Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Community
  • State

• Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

  

  Alan Menken
  • World
  • Songs
  • Association

• The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Kind

• An idea is a feat of association.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Idea
  • Association
  • Feat

• Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Grows
  • Association
  • Adhesion

• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Responsibility
  • Busy
  • Athletic

• You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Air
  • Common
  • Newspapers

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