Joining Quotes - Page 6

• I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

  Nick Saban

  Knows

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Triumph

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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• Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.  People do not get crucified for charity.  People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world.  People are not crucified for helping poor people.  People are crucified for joining them.

  Shane Claiborne

  Winning, Order, Awards

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hipster, Men, America

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

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• Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Book, Becoming, Collectors

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of his audience but he's kind of reaching over his audience or behind his audience to black Americans, saying what have you got to lose? As in you might as well join me because the Democrats haven't done anything for you. But joining me means joining this group that already supports me.

  George Packer

  Mean, Support, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.

  will.i.am

  Creating, People, Worry

  Source: thesource.com

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• I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.

  Berhan Ahmed

  Regret, Drinking, Smoking

  Source: www.vice.com

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• Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

  George Osborne

  Choices, Leaving, Currency

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Cutting, Years, Together

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• 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, Band, Actors

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Dream, Responsibility

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

  Mason Cooley

  Issues, Museums, Chastity

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• A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Kids, Parent, Networking

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• Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Hands, New Life, Infinite

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 162), 1895.

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• When in doubt, initiate. Say yes—to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Love, Time, Joining In

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• The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

  Jock Stein

  Boys, Men, Giving

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• Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Mean, Fighting

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• 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, Parks

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• The horse seems to wanna please the human and so many times if the human isn’t much of a leader well then the horse has gotta do it’s own thinking. The horse isn’t really designed very well to be the leader but just because the horse is responding to ya, I don’t really think of it as it succumbing to you. I think it’s more of the horse sort of joining you, being more of a partner.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Leader

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• In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Strong, War, Fighting

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• 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

  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• 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

  Like You

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.11, Crossing Press

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