Community Quote by Daniel Polansky Download Open image ““M did not like communities, which were usually filled with people, whom M liked even less.”” — Daniel Polansky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
“(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.” — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“or, worst of all, that we’re the sort of people other people just don’t like.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“people, including types that I didn’t like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“People are people. Whatever happens, they make communities, struggle for normalcy.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Despite I may be surrounded by many friends, there is not one that interests me as much as you do” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“maybe community is everyone, and the delineations we impose are really artificial.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“As far as immortality went, that was obviously not any sort of good at all. Who had ever met death without some partial measure… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a lit fuse, love – you light it yourself, and you stand around the powder keg afterward, grinning from ear to ear.” — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“He’s gonna chill for a minute. Now offer him some motherfucking Froot Loops.” The man shrunk his head into his shoulders. “You want some… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“The train slowed to a crawl. “What’s below the turtle?” Flemel asked finally. “It’s turtles all the way down,” M informed him, stepping out… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“I leaned back into my chair, folded my arms together and made like I was pondering. ‘I understand. You’re worried about the future.’ ‘Damn… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“Once the trouble started he lit one of those boom sticks. Captain put him down, but..." Barley shrugged his swelled shoulders. "Not fast enough.… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the force of Elf's attack carried… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“the rat king, they call it, unimaginatively. My long association with the city’s rodent population has yet to confirm its existence, but it’s a… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“The Questioner was repacking his tools with a vague air of disappointment. Deciding my legs were steady enough to carry me, I propped myself… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“A chubby vole sat as guardian between the two sections, making sure the hoi polloi didn't get any ideas above their station. His name… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image