Groups Quotes

• There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Want
  • Treats
  • Tendencies

• The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Relation
  • Impulse
  • Ongoing

• Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

  

  J. Gordon Melton
  • Great
  • America
  • Society

• The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Literature
  • Able
  • Nazi

• We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Groups
  • Victims
  • Aggressors

• When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • People
  • Kids
  • Conform

• People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

  

  Willard Scott
  • People
  • America
  • Study

• I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Notion
  • Secularists
  • Congregating

• Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

  

  Carlos Queiroz
  • Team
  • Running
  • Player

• I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Silly

• Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Important
  • Political
  • Personification

• A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

  

  H. Ned Seelye
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Degrees

• Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

  

  Nandita Das
  • Ideas
  • Racist
  • Magazines

• I simply noted that one of the groups, especially exporters, would prefer to have a weaker rouble.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Groups

• Its because it is about playing music together and enjoying it. Other groups are so caught up in getting from this point to that point, not the music. This is about the music. Collectively we have the maturity to handle this and see it through now.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Together

• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Persons
  • Meaningful
  • Patient

• Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Culture
  • Looks
  • Philosophy

• In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated, all the details. So I think a part of me was always filing them away, although at the time I wasn't sure why.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Boys
  • Details

• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Hate
  • Reason

• Big Bang is the group I want to be with till I die. I want us to be five members. Forever.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Forever
  • Bigs
  • Members

• HARD LESSONS. We wanted to bring groups together on common areas.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Common
  • Groups
  • Areas

• I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Use
  • Names
  • Realist

• This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Body
  • Groups

• I think certain friendships have seasons, when you're closer with people when you're not, and so you can always have a relationship to someone or a group of friends that you don't necessarily have to work so hard to facilitate or to like maintain.

  

  Clayton Snyder
  • People
  • Hard
  • Certain

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