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Quotes About Involvement

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.
~ Betty Williams
Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.
~ Bethann Hardison
How can you not be involved? These are your times, your world, even if those events are on the other side of it. And as for the narrative--you are a part of that, for better or for worse, whether the grey inexorable economic inevitabilities--recessions and recoveries and having less money or more--or the grand perilous global story.
~ Penelope Lively
Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.
~ Unknown
knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.
~ Unknown
Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.
~ Peter Hedges
we are participating in His actual work.
~ Peter Kreeft
The family that plays together.
~ Phil Jackson
The people are living separately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.
~ Philip Gourevitch
You see, it functions this way: Substance D, in fact all addictive dope, but Substance D most of all, interacts with the catecholamines in such a fashion that involvement is locked in place at a subcellular level.
~ Philip K. Dick
Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they're essential to our wellbeing.
~ Philip Pullman
There were areas of her life about which she cared passionately and which he was indifferent to or simply unaware of.
~ Philip Pullman
SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 1941. Delivers his "Who Are the War Agitators?" radio speech to an America First rally in Des Moines on September 11; audience of eight thousand cheers when he names "the Jewish race" as among those most powerful and effective in pushing the U.S.—"for reasons which are not American"—toward involvement in the war.
~ Philip Roth
It's hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling's enough.
~ David Foster Wallace
Je veux que le lecteur comprenne bien ce qui était en jeu pour moi à ce moment-là. Les guerres d'insurrection et de contre-insurrection sont extrêmement vicieuses puisqu'elles impliquent personnellement tous les hommes, militaires ou civils, des deux camps, qui se trouvent être dans le théâtre d'opérations. Personne ne peut se permettre de rester neutre et de regarder les événements en spectateur. Alors
~ Unknown
Speak with expression, not monotonically. Use body language, eye contact, and vocal range. Show the client you have energy around the subject at hand. 5.
~ David H. Maister
You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting? I shake my head. You try to leave the lives the way you found them. Yeah. But what about Justin? What made that so different? You, I say.
~ David Levithan
If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.
~ David Levithan
But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.
~ David Levithan
But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.
~ David Levithan
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
~ Dean Koontz
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently.
~ Yann Martel
15:4:4 The main purpose of learning and involvement in Torah study is to make yourself into a throne for the Divine Presence. When you are dirty with all kinds of sins and transgressions then the Shechinah can't come to rest on you because each and every sin is like a thorn that hurts Her. To remove this obstacle, confess your sins before you begin to learn Torah. (Kav ha-Yashar, chap. 53)
~ Unknown
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
~ Yogi Berra