Quotes About Participation

But love doesn't control, and I suppose that's why it's the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we're giving our heart to won't break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

Where there's no story, there's no engagement.

5.  Live Events:

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

there are four large screens on the scoreboard showing the score, replays of the game and fan participation. Throughout the game, the video screens showed highlights of games played in the past as well.

Was having someone else hunt and kill for you any different, morally, than doing it yourself, or was it worse because it removed you from the act while still requiring the kill?

Participating in work enables the children to learn important lessons early on, lessons that are necessary for life. They learn to do their fair share and to help others.

Today, Passover is a festival of freedom....Passover remains relevant and contemporary, while at the same time a ritual several thousand years old.... The content—at least some of it—is flexible and determined by the participants at specific celebrations. Thus, the holy day is still meaningful to younger generations, because it allows for creative input and participation. It breathes.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no even by our inactivity.

A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.

The work of Christian intellectuals is not done in the abstract; it is effective participation in the preservation of the world, and in the building up of the church.

We have even lost any critical insight we may once have had into the organic basis of perception, taking for granted the basic fact that a normal person has two eyes. We have nearly ceased to consider this as even knowledge at all and are no longer conscious of our own participation in perception. Instead, we feel a complete passivity in the face of a power that is independent of us; a power we call "existence" or "reality.

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

There is not that readiness and zeal in the work of the church, which I would wish to see. There are many fruitless branches on the tree, Mrs. Laicus, many members of my church who do nothing really to promote its interests. They are not to be found in the Sabbath School; they cannot be induced to participate actively in tract distribution; and they are even not to be depended on in the devotional week-day meetings of the church.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

It was only a small step in logic to conclude that in our act of participation as an observer in the quantum world, we might also be an influencer, a creator.8 Did we not only stop the butterfly at a certain point in its flight, but also influence the path it will take – nudging it in a particular direction? A related quantum effect suggested by

Before the council closed in 1965, it issued sixteen documents—constitutions, declarations, and decrees—that made many widespread decisions about the life of the church. In an interview Reverend Theodore K. Parker observed that although Vatican II did not specifically tell Catholics to go out and participate in the civil rights movement, those who were inclined to do so might have taken inspiration from Gaudium et spes (The Pastoral Constitution on the Church

To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this not the image of the perfect republic -- each instrument singing its wonted melody, endeavoring at once to express its part, and, in the same instance to conform its voice to the conversation of the whole?

Or to put it another way: Should "the people" be raised up through education and literacy so that they were full participants in the Revolutionary experiment? Or should music, writing, painting, and drama be simplified to the point where anyone could understand them?