Association Quotations | Page 2

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

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.

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

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.

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

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

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.

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.

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.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

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.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

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

An idea is a feat of association.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

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