Joining Quotes

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.- St. Isaac the Syrian

Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

Oh, hello, me lovely, we haven’t met. Asmodeus, demon extraordinaire, at your service. Any service you may require, especially those that involve nudity and adjoining body parts joining other people’s body parts. (Asmodeus)

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family - it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner; everyone knows everyone and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.