The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.
Some may say that it's wrong for the government to meddle in what private companies are doing, but phone radio waves belong to the people.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.
In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?
The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.
Sitting on the sidelines is so painful because it's very difficult for me to watch wrestling and not be a participant in the ring, since that's just where I belong.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.
You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.
I don't belong to the slums, but to play Naru in 'City Of Gold,' I had to live for months in a real chawl before we shot the film.
Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.
I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.
Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
I write different kinds of stuff, from 'Two Dollars In The Jukebox' to 'Suspicions,' that really don't belong next to each other on an album.
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
I have always maintained that the only group I belong to consists of my family, my wife Lily, my mother, my sons Omri and Gilad.
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders
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