What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
~By Angela Davis ~
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
~By Robert Rainy ~
A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
~By Brandon Lee ~
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
~By Edmund Barton ~
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
~By Richard King ~
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
~By Vincent Canby ~
There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.
~By Ken Follet ~
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
~By James Taylor ~
A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
~By Robert Ley ~
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
~By Roy Moore ~
Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
~By Colin Hay ~
I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
~By Harry Shearer ~
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.
~By Jane Mayer ~
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
~By John Paul Jones ~
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
~By John Moody ~
I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
~By Richard Masur ~
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
~By Trey Parker ~
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
~By Steve Irwin ~
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
~By Anita Desai ~
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.
~By Kristin Davis ~
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
~By Ben Chandler ~
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
~By Dean Kamen ~
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
~By Henry Lawson ~
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
~By Richard Gere ~
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.
~By John Culberson ~
Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
~By Aries Spears ~
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
~By Louis Agassiz ~
Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.
~By Colm Meaney ~
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
~By Samuel Adams ~
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
~By John McHugh ~
If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
~By Marc Newson ~
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
~By Allen Tate ~
I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.
~By Daniel Smith ~
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
~By Joan Blades ~
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
~By John Drinkwater ~
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
~By Charles Sturt ~
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
~By Bill Condon ~
I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
~By Peter Jennings ~
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
~By John Sladek ~
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
~By Claire Danes ~
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~By Anais Nin ~
All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
~By Judy Collins ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
~By Steven Pinker ~
But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.
~By John W. Thompson ~
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
~By Paul O'Neill ~
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
~By Ernst Haeckel ~
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
~By Paul Begala ~
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
~By Debi Mazar ~
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
~By Richard Leakey ~
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
~By Allan Sloan ~
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
~By Martha Beck ~
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