Belonging Quotes - Page 20

• For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

  Alfred Nobel

  Gun, Wish, Use

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• By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.

  Michel Callon

  World, Facts, Owners

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• Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, People, Church

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unique, Tolerance, Individual

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• She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Cruelty

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Knowing, People, Prejudice

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6

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• Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.

  Paul Bowles

  Moving, Home, Years

  Paul Bowles (2011). “The Sheltering Sky”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

  Mathieu Kerekou

  Strong, Community, Proud

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• People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

  Marguerite Duras

  Paris, People, Giving

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• It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

  Oswald Chambers

  Crazy, Believe, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.497, Discovery House

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• In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.

  McKenzie Wark

  Boredom, Desire, Trying

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• The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Names, Giving

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• The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.

  George MacDonald

  Brother, Eye, Light

  George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination: And Other Essays”

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• When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Blessed

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• The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, Giving, Goal

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Jobs, Common Decency, Australia

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• Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

  Paul Stewart

  Normal, Want, Left

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• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  Otto Wallach

  Mean, Thinking, Oil

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• He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Ideas, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.40, Anchor

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• When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

  Anais Nin

  Order, World, Pressure

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• Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

  Toni Morrison

  Quilts, Reality, Cells

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

  Sidney Poitier

  Home, Character, Journey

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• For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moments, Standards, Young

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

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