Quotes About Involvement

You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

It is brave to be involved

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Isn't that what the Mafia does? You give somebody something they can't talk about. Then you've got them.' 'You involve them in a mutual transgression, and you have a mutual corruption. Sure.' So his problem is that he's insufficiently corrupt.' 'Oh, yes. Absolutely. And unsophisticated.

From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven. The Jesus I Never Knew (244 – 45)

involvement with others was the most effective in quelling her pain.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

There's only one way to find out," said Eddie, smiling slightly. Beth turned to her sister. "Spy on them?" "Exactly." Caroline began to feel all warm inside again, though not, she knew, with the Christmas spirit. Eddie and Beth were back in her corner again, making plans, and that was right where she wanted them to be.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of government, is to live under the government of worse men.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

It is a privilege for us to look at circumstances and discern God's involvement in them. To recognize them as more than mere happenstance but rather God's own detailed design and plan. To see that He is allowing us to cooperate with Him in bringing life from death, growth from loss, testimony from tragedy.