Association Quotes
494 Association quotes by 393 unique authors
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A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the…
— James Allen
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A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding…
— Alberto Manguel
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Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,…
— George Carlin
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Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.
— Terry Pratchett
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She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked…
— Charles Dickens
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Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens…
— Anne Lamott
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The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We…
— J. G. Ballard
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
— Marya Hornbacher
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in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange…
— Steig Larsson
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Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages.…
— Terry Pratchett
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
— Virginia Woolf
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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and…
— Edith Wharton
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And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight…
— Ezra Pound
Who Wrote These Association Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 494 Association Quotes, led by these top contributors: