Quotes About Social Gathering

#1. One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Paul Beatty

#2. If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.

Brian P. Cleary

#3. All you really need to do is focus on building quality relationships instead of trying to be a social butterfly at every social gathering.

S.J. Scott

#4. Subtle persecution may happen to you in your office, school, or social gathering. You may not be "with it," or be "one of the crowd." No suffering that the Christian endures for Christ is ever in vain.

Billy Graham

#5. I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

Akshay Kumar

#6. The most elementary of good manners ... at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

Laura Esquivel

#7. In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

Madonna Ciccone

#8. To the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Santha Rama Rau

#9. It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

Genevieve Gorder

#10. Money is energy and in the right hands can help heal the world.

Nikki Rowe

#11. I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Oliver

#12. People easily understand that 'primitives' cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Will Rogers

#14. ... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

Caroline Kepnes

#15. Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

James Cook

#16. The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#17. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

Carmen Ejogo

#18. When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

Taylor Hackford

#19. The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.

Marianne Williamson

#20. My church-inspired conclusion was that she was obviously a proud woman, so if she was anything like me, sympathy would not win her over. After my brother's dissapearance, there was nothing I detested more than people oozing with softly spoken words and hugs that went on way too long.

Jenny B. Jones

#21. Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

Lionel Barber

#22. Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

Ed McMahon

#23. The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

William Stringfellow

#24. I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.

Ally Condie

#25. Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

David Levithan

#26. Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Girdhar Joshi