Best 232 quotes in «association quotes» category

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!

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

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

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.

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

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.