Membership Quotes - Page 5

• The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

  Portia de Rossi

  Self Esteem, Pills, Use

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

  Janet Evanovich

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.254, Macmillan

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• There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Race, Dying, Answers

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• He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Grief, Kids

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Country, Demand

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• For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Organization, Church

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• Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Self, Community

  "The Common Market: Loss of Self-Government". Book by Tony Benn, 2016.

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same spoken of by the Lord and found in the Pearl of Great Price: "For behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." May we ever remember that the mantle of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a cloak of comfort but rather a robe of responsibility. Our duty, in addition to saving ourselves, is to guide others to the celestial kingdom of God.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

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• The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play.

  Rajneesh

  Games, Play, Society

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• Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Science, Environmental, Groups

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”

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• We call it 3HO, an organization of healthy, happy, and holy people. It has no membership charge, no presidents, and at this point not even a secretary. Anybody can be a member who will promise that he shall undertake to practice these exercises, and to practice to breathe consciously. Be aware that the breath is the divine charge and it is a gift of the God.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Exercise, Practice, Organization

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• The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Real, Humorous

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.1964, Random House

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• When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

  Wes Jackson

  Nature, Agriculture, Land

  "A Conversation with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson". The Hedgehog Review: Vol.14, No.2, iasc-culture.org. Summer 2012.

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• A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Workout, Morning, Thinking

  "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.

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• But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.

  Mike Ertel

  Reality, People, Would Be

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

  Heber J. Grant

  People, Church, Principles

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Solitude

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• I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.

  Sean Hannity

  New York, Golf, Black

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

  Barbara Walters

  Compassion, Race, Self

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• How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Religious, Loneliness

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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