Quotes About Engagement

On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates--as intended.

Neoliberalism works best when there is formal electoral democracy, but when the population is diverted from the information, access, and public forums necessary for meaningful participation in decision making.

I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine.

We will also learn that our own actions, or passive acquiescence, contribute quite substantially to misery and oppression, and perhaps eventual global destruction.

Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In

As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth: Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy...everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes.

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?

Craig was a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he was so low-key that once I'd gotten to know him, I was almost completely unable to have even imaginary conversations with him while cooking his recipes. Around

We all have stories like that, stories we rely on to establish our charm in the beginning of relationships.

There's nothing worse than having people to a dinner that they all just polish off and before you know it, they're done eating and dinner is over and it's only ten o'clock and everyone leaves and it's just you and the dishes.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged.

Just because I did the proposing doesn't mean I don't want a ring. Yeah, yeah, I'll get to it. I'll pick it out. No, you won't. Why not? I'm the one who'll be wearing it. You're the one wearing your face, too, but you didn't pick that out, either. On a sigh, she knelt beside him. That makes absolutely no sense. But she tipped her head onto his shoulder as he worked. When I came here I was scared and angry. Now I'm scared, angry and happy. It's better, she decided. A lot better.

Now if we're finished jousting over sex- Darling,I haven't even picked up my lance. That's a very weak double entendre. She had him there. It's early.why don't you tell me why i'm having breakfast with you. I was up all night. The comment that occurred to him was not only weak,but crude.He let it pass.

sexy." "I'm not interested in funny and sexy with Malcolm Kavanaugh." "Parker, if you weren't interested, on some level, you'd have flicked him off like lint on a lapel. He . . ." Laurel searched for the right word. "He intrigues you." "No, he . . . Maybe." "As your friend, let me say it's nice to see you intrigued by a man, especially since I like the

You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

You're well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.

takes two to speak the truth— one to speak, and another to hear. —Henry David Thoreau

Her mother would be married by then, and just back from her honeymoon. Maddy and Theo would be her brother and sister, and back in school. She would be planning her own wedding, though she'd pressured Tyler not to announce their engagement yet.