Gregarious Quotes - Page 2

• I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, People, Loner

  8 Copy quote

• Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

  Katori Hall

  Directors, Needs, Actors

  7 Copy quote

• Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Vulnerable, Gifted

  "Orson Welles (1961)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 297, 1967.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earth does not understand her child,
  Who from the loud gregarious town
  Returns, depleted and defiled,
  To the still woods, to fling him down.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Doe, Earth

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

  183 Copy quote

  Show source

• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Spiritual, Mean

  15 Copy quote

• MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.

  Billy Graham

  Powerful, Attitude, Men

  Billy Graham (2017). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.229, Thomas Nelson

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Disappointment, Self, Our Society

  8 Copy quote

• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Bottles, Vineyards

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

  Charles Dickens

  Flying, Trouble, Flocks

  Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.145

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

  Niall Ferguson

  Thinking, Circles, Important

  14 Copy quote

• We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

  William James

  Animal, Sight, Society

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination.  A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

  Edmund Gosse

  Air, Cells, Oxygen

  "Father and Son".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Public Opinion

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Mother, Mistake, Men

  5 Copy quote

• Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1984). “The Brownings' Correspondence”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Athlete, College, Artist

  4 Copy quote

• Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

  Nelson Mandela

  Solitude, Persons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Animal, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire.

  Ted Nugent

  Military, Night, Fire

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

  William Golding

  Animal, Men, Fire

  222 Copy quote

• Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Men, Lines

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.380

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

  Florence King

  America, Quirky, Armor

  Florence King (1982). “When sisterhood was in flower”, Viking Pr

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

  Jeremy Brett

  Dark, Moon, Sides

  "he Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes - The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett". Book by Terry Manners, p. 212, March 20, 1997.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source