Quotes by Community I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community. Seth Rogen communityevilkids I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community. Seth Rogen communityfeelsworld We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community. Shane Claiborne communitymeanhands The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do. Shane Claiborne restorationpoliticiancommunity That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community. Shane Claiborne creatingdistancecommunity The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work. Shane Claiborne dirty-workcommunitydirty Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. Shane Claiborne great-lovecommunityordinary God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need. Shane Claiborne communitystuffpeople When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things." Shane Claiborne communitybrainyears We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. Shane Claiborne planterscommunitychurch By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy voicecommunitypeople Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. Sharon Horgan hackneyrapcommunity .. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds. Sharon Olds communitylove-isbird The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. Sharon Olds nyucommunityteaching To be political actually means to care about your community. Sharon Gannon politicalcommunitymean In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively. Sharon Salzberg paincommunitysuffering A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community Sheena Iyengar communityexpectationscharacter Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs. Sheila Kamerman communitybabychildren Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. Sheila Jeffreys connectionscommunitypractice For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic. Sheila Watt-Cloutier communityuseair«160161162163164165166167168169170»
