Association Quotes · Page 7

“You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Terry Pratchett

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.

— Ann Scott

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own…

— Louis L'Amour

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view…

— William Merritt Chase

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

— Hugh Laurie

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite…

— Mark Rothko

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

— Patricia Moyes

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because…

— Irwin M. Jacobs

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

— Eli Roth

It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of…

— James R. Lewis

Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students.…

— Jon Gordon

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view…

— Anonymous

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls…

— D. H. Lawrence

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name…

— Jerry Robinson

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is…

— David Frum

True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that…

— Arthur Lynch

Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back…

— Yaya Toure

The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological…

— Edgar Cayce

All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive…

— Michael LeBoeuf

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living…

— Anonymous

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed…

— George Eliot

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

— Peter Fonda

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

— Hank Azaria

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

— Marya Hornbacher

The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.

— Bradley Sands

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.

— Jon Gordon

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

— Daniel Kahneman

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

— Edward Thorndike

“A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.”

— Hrishikesh Agnihotri

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

— David Spade

“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

— Israelmore Ayivor