Quotes About Involvement

The greater the involvement in another's life, the greater is the demand for sacrifice.

recent research has shown that by far the largest fraction of personal bankruptcies involve the illness of a family member.38

participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

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Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

In brief, we spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have-the time their children need.

The best parent is both parents" means mommy is no substitute for daddy, money is not substitute for daddy, and another man is no substitute for daddy. Just as daddy is no substitute for mommy, money is no substitute for mommy, and another woman is no substitute for mommy. Divorce does not change that. The best parent is still both parents.

The boy crisis' primary cause is dad-deprived boys. Dad deprivation stems primarily from a lack of father involvement, and secondarily from devaluing what a father contributes when he is involved.

But it is crucial to let your son know that when unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child's third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years- between the ages of three and five.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation. ~ Warren G. Harding

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

What would it take to make you intervene

The emotional involvement, the pity, desire, and compassion of the bhakti gods causes them to forget that they are above it all, as metaphysics demands, and reduces them to the human level, as mythology demands.

that. Amanda and Leo tried to help me last year

Most of Nusra's fighters were foreigners—Saudis, Qataris, Tunisians . . .

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.