Best 232 quotes in «association quotes» category

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the sprit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!

So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

[T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.