The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.
Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
Humor is a good way in general to get people together, I think. Of course, Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether.
Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.
Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So, of course, I was not too serious covering such things as Motörhead or "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But I was serious enough about Led Zeppelin and the Celtic song "Wild Mountain Thyme." In my life, serious and humor are always together.
If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.