Quotes About Involvement

Don't live life as a spectator.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

The only way to deal with guilt among those who refuse to repent is the palliation that comes from social activism. Involvement in social movements like the civil-rights, abortion-rights, and gay-rights movements became a way of calming troubled consciences.

The artist gives the beholder increasingly 'more to do,' he draws him into the magic circle of creation and allows him to experience something of the thrill of 'making' which had once been the privilege of the artist

He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.

It is easy to say shocking things: it is so different to be connected with anything shocking. Life and death were not involved, but comfort and discomfort were.

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.