Top 1200 Small Groups Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

I know I'm small. But I don't feel small sometimes. I feel like a giant sometimes.

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Small hotels are going to be in vogue. In my view, small is going to be the new big, wherein people will rethink a lot about going back to that 1,000-room hotel versus going to a 40-room niche hotel.

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

I rest a bit more when I keep. The only thing I have to look after is my back and using different muscle groups.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

There is a small group of 'Never Trump' conservatives. But it is a small group, and I've actually been surprised that there are not more of us. There's enough of us for a dinner party, not a political party. I wish there were more.

People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and... forget the main reason why we're here: to worship Allah.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself captive with chocolate. I find that writers tend to be dismissive of small amounts of work or time, but they can actually add up. I've written several books in 15 minute increments.

All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

The thing about 'CD:U.K.' was, because the show started quite small with small viewing figures and it built and built, the bigger the figures got, the better and bigger the pop star you got.

If Pakistan and ISI stop supporting terrorist groups, security situation in South Asia would improve significantly.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.