Quotes About Engagement

He looked up, grinned, and tossed the rock over his shoulder. "'You had me at hello.

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

When you hear a man talking, then, always inquire as to what he is doing or what he has done for humanity. Oratory and resolutions do not avail much. If they did, the Negro race would be in a paradise on earth.

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

Come now, ladies. That's enough," he told them. "We have serious work to do here.

Brandeis can be taken to have offered a conception of the social role of the idealized citizen. For such a citizen, active engagement in politics, at least some of the time, is a responsibility, not just an entitlement. If citizens are "inert," freedom itself is at risk. If

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway.

Novelties please less than they impress.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world--now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

Far more entertaining than a high-wire or trapeze circus act is watching someone engage in a life-after-death-defying spiritual rebellion, while pretending we thoroughly condemn it.

Don't fight reality. Influence it.

Be useful where thou livest.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I drink to make other people interesting." or "I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

We are pressed, pressed on each other,We will be told at onceOf anything that happens

I think always about the thing in which we are. Among the things in it is force, power. It is not enough to say that we like it or that we do not like it. It is here, we must first talk about it. We are not shoppers—or we are not first of all shoppers; it is not enough to say that we like or we do not like—

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.