Quotes About Engagement

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

I will reach out to all states uniformly... I can assure you I will take two steps for every step they extend.

As governor, I'll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.

Aside from being the funniest play in N.Y.C., '39 Steps' is also the only show crazy enough to ask me to be a part of it.

There are certain things that you can blast through a stereo. You can blast hip-hop. You can blast heavy metal. You can't blast 'All Things Considered.'

we have a penchant to pay close attention to information that comes to us in the form of a story or personal account.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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In the years before then, he recalls, a very different breed filled the party's precinct positions; the sort of folks who "would donate a thousand-dollar check to the Republican Party, and do not a darn thing.

If you have somebody willing to . . . meet the voter face-to-face and one-on-one, not only does it not cost any money in terms of postage, . . . you can hand them the material and you can give them that personal touch.

You bond with customers by talking more about what's most important to them (their problems), rather than whatever might be most important to you (your solutions).

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

The critical question is whether preachers are supposed to help people "find their stories in the Bible" or are supposed to call the hearers, as George Lindbeck has suggested, to "make the story of the Bible their story."45

Questioning a text is a creative, imaginative activity—something like brainstorming.

He was not a particularly emotional man: he had never chosen engagement when the role of observer was available.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Symmetrical art is a closed form, perfect in itself and frozen in completeness; asymmetrical art invites the observer in, to expand his imagination and to become part of the process of creation.

Information is the currency of democracy

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

The thinkers and works of the past are studied here not as dated museum pieces or objects of antiquarian curiosity; they are confronted as powerful voices that challenge us to join in searching debates. The point is not to learn about these thinkers and texts, but from them.

Some uncomfortable moments later Day told me she had a prior engagement and was running late. It seemed she had made girl plans with a girlfriend of hers to do some girly things girls do when they get together with others of their kind. I said I understood, and I did. There is no doubt in my mind of the gender of Day's companion this night, and perhaps other nights I did not know about.