Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
John McCain

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
Richard J. Daley

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.
Brett Favre

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma