Quotes About Unity

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

I was in the chorus in high school, not a soloist. I was on the basketball team. I was in modern dance, part of the group. I was a cheerleader, part of the group. I played the violin, part of the orchestra. I never wanted to be out there alone. Ever.

There is no VIP. We're all the same.

The politics of division are not what we want in New Jersey and Virginia and elsewhere.

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.

I'm running for governor because I want to build a Virginia that works for everyone - no matter who you are, no matter where you're from.

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

One great feature of Roblox is all mobile players join the same game servers as desktop players, connecting users across devices in a shared virtual world.

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.

D-Nice has shown us what is possible and how music can bring people together and virtual parties.

John McCain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled, but it was never based in partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared.

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Virtue is harmony.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.