Quotes of: Community-service Keyword

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people...

Bob Seger

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consum...

Thorstein Veblen

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on ...

Thorton Wilder

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the gener...

Vint Cerf

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was 'E...

William Bell

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

Cross in Our Context

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Community And Growth

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Community And Growth

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Communication Power

The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

A Dictionary of Thought

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Euphoria

People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.

Extraordinary Relationships

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

Although love is communicated in a number of ways,our words often reflect the condition of our heart.

Fireproof Your Marriage Couple's Kit

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Gone Girl

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Gift from the Sea

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Handle with Care