Quotes About Involvement

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

It's a party,' she repeated. 'You can either miss it and take pictures of it, or you can join get a drink and join it.

He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.

Nix: I'm actively involved in steering the lives of thousands of beings. Which directly affects hundreds of thousands, which indirectly affects millions, with a ripple effect reaching billions. If someone said, 'It ain't easy being Nïxie,' I wouldn't cal him a liar.

I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.

School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.

I'm wading in, but I'm not ready to fully immerse myself yet.

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Bandage any part of your body If people ask about it, make a story and tell If people do not ask about it, draw their attention to it and tell If people forget about it, remind them of it and keep telling. Do not talk about anything else

for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That's a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.