Gregariousness Quotes

#1. Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Phyllis McGinley

#2. Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Daniel Gillies

#3. The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

Susan Cain

#5. There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all they mean is that one should associate himself, "sign up" with some religious group. Stand up and be counted. As if religion were somehow primarily a matter of gregariousness ...

Thomas Merton

#6. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much.

Susan Cain

#7. Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Boris Pasternak

#8. I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Karen Armstrong

#9. There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

George Steiner

#10. A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Charles Buxton

#11. So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

Julien Smith

#12. I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world.

Pico Iyer

#13. An everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Arthur Miller

#14. I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

Mo Ibrahim

#15. Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.

Charlene Diane Jones

#16. You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.

Lewis Carroll

#17. If you elect to join the herd you are immune. To be accepted and appreciated you must nullify yourself, make yourself indistinguishable from the herd. You may dream, if you dream alike.

Henry Miller

#18. More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

Evan Osnos