Quotes About Involvement

somewhere years ago I had forgotten how to be involved in anything. Somehow somewhere I had lost completely the capacity to be concerned.

There's nothing wrong in love. It happens. It doesn't much matter who with. We get caught up, we get kidnapped by mistake.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.

She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

I dabble in causes and effects.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with the wider world.

We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.

'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.