Groups Quotes

• I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Animal

• Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Ahead
  • Achieves

• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Government
  • Majority
  • Ruined

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Huge

• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Up
  • Running
  • Albums

• A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

  

  Raul Labrador
  • Immigration
  • Reform
  • Citizenship

• I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Planet

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Teenagers
  • Frankie Lyman

• I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Want
  • Mindset
  • Members

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s, because I was broke and wasn't selling any art. I was in a few group shows, but I didn't have a gallery until 2006.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Art
  • Groups
  • Selling

• The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Groups

• Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

  

  Mark Hall Casting Crowns
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Accounts

• I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Groups
  • Factories
  • Ratios

• Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Mean
  • Leadership

• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Groups

• I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

  

  Alan Paton
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Small

• Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

  

  V V Brown
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.

  

  Peter William Ham Badfinger
  • Parent
  • Changed
  • Used

• If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Sing
  • Involved
  • Groups

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Confusion

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