Joining famous quotes

I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.
-- Ally Carter

#Thinking #Two #Joining

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Government #Cities #Joining

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#Book #Joining #Becoming

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Hands #Needs #Joining

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.
-- Audre Lorde

#Joining #Like You

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Joining

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.
-- Billy Childish

#Joining #Exhibitions #Want

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
-- Carl Sagan

#Understanding #Cosmos #Joining

If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.- St. Isaac the Syrian
-- Dorotheus of Gaza

#Humility #Men #Joining

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?
-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Past #Joining #Links

I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.
-- Dwight Howard

#Wish #Fans #Joining

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Two #Joining #World

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad

#Joining #Causes #Made

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.
-- Fernando Torres

#Fans #Joining #Want

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
-- Francois Mitterrand

#Opportunity #Succeed #Joining

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
-- Hannah Storm

#Thank You #Morning #Joining

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.
-- Henry Fielding

#Laughing #Joining #Mirth

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Laughter #Joining

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
-- Jacques Chirac

#Europe #Joining #Way

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
-- James Brown

#Play #African American #Joining

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.
-- James Callaghan

#Brother #Joining #Band

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#Wine #Beef #Joining

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
-- Jim Sturgess

#Acting #Joining #Band

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
-- Jimmy Carr

#Feet #Joining #Weight

The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.
-- Joel Garreau

#Believe #Joining #Recipes

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
-- Johannes V. Jensen

#Writing #Years #Joining

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?
-- John Connolly

#Boys #Groups #Joining

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
-- John Mica

#Reform #Joining #Economic

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.
-- Johnny Marr

#Teenager #Interesting #Joining

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
-- Julian Fellowes

#Three #Joining #Rooms

Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
-- Kapil Dev

#Party #Agency #Joining

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
-- Karl Philipp Moritz

#Prayer #Joining #Solemn

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
-- Kenny G

#Fusion #Joining #Gigs

It's more fun to watch without joining in.
-- Lionel Blue

#Fun #Watches #Joining

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Unique #Together #Joining

This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.
-- Marva Dawn

#Joining #Looks #Answers

Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Philosophy #Thinking #Joining

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
-- Merlin Mann

#Creative #Jogging #Joining

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.
-- Merold Westphal

#Spiritual #Destiny #Joining

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.
-- Michael D. Barnes

#Gun #Joining #Magazines

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.
-- Millicent Fenwick

#Organization #America #Joining

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
-- Nan Hayworth

#Family Love #Rifles #Joining

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
-- Naomi Wolf

#Team #Focus #Joining

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades
-- Nathan Lane

#Joining #Born #Parades

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.
-- Nick Clegg

#Party #Men #Joining

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.
-- Nick Saban

#Joining

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.
-- Robbie Keane

#Clubs #Joining #World

Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team
-- Robinho

#Team #Joining #Misled

Why would I become involved with something that doesn't include everyone? If you're getting married today, it's the equivalent of joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Country #Joining #Clubs

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.
-- Sissela Bok

#Practice #Joining #Movement

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.
-- Snoop Dogg

#Night #People #Joining

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#School #Appreciate #Joining

It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Dog #Vampire #Joining

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.
-- Susan Wojcicki

#Leaving #Google #Joining

I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.
-- Tessa Dare

#Joining #May #Blanket

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Giving #Joining #Pledge

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
-- Tim Berners-Lee

#People #Joining #Groups

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?
-- Wayne Mack

#Thinking #Church #Joining

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
-- Wayne Rooney

#Inspirational #Joining #Fields

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
-- Carolyn Parrish

#Wise #Joining #Idiot

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
-- Frances O'Grady

#Joining #Unions #Individual

Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.
-- Jeff Britting

#Interesting #Directors #Joining

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.
-- Patrick Fabian

#Long #Video #Joining

Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.
-- Sue Tompkins

#Important #Trying #Joining

You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.
-- Volkmar Sigusch

#Couple #People #Joining

There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.
-- Yair Lapid

#Differences #Community #Joining

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.
-- Mario Bunge

#Liars #Hypocrite #Joining

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.
-- Peter Crouch

#Successful #Joining #Clubs

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.
-- Roman Abramovich

#Feelings #Would Be #Joining

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.
-- Gary Panter

#People #Joining

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.
-- Zalmay Khalilzad

#Revenge #War #Joining

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.
-- Kshama Sawant

#Fighting #Joining #Movement