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  • Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

    Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr
  • Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

  • For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

    Law   Justice   Wicked  
    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn
  • In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

    Fashion   Cement   Built  
  • Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

  • It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.

    Winning   Mvp   Special  
  • Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

    Snow   Giving   Cement  
    Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.
  • Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

    Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114
  • New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  • A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

    Men   Unity   Use  
  • The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

    Vices   Moral   Virtue  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103
  • Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

    Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
  • Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  • Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

    Dancing   Wizards   Want  
  • There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn epigraph (1943)
  • I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

    Car   Idiot   Truck  
    Source: collider.com
  • I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive.

    Wall   Heart   Fighting  
  • Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

    Source: collider.com
  • Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

    Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult
  • Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.

    Sports   Block   Spring  
  • I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

    Strong   Kids   Air  
    “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.
  • We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

    Mean   Eye   Agreement  
    "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality". Book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, 1971.
  • Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor
  • I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more.

    Fall   Thinking   Eight  
  • Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

    Social   Bonding   Cement  
  • The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

  • Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

    Sex   Block   Kitchen  
  • There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

    Honesty   Real   Rocks  
    A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
  • Sweat makes good friendship cement.

    "Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly on the 30th anniversary of Cagney and Lacey" by David Brown, www.radiotimes.com.
  • With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset   Hands   Names  
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