Quotes About Engagement

Victoria», en este privilegiado puesto de observación de nuestra existencia. Nos esforzamos por llegar a comprometernos

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?

Mother Teresa said: Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2

But what happens if and when writers begin to outnumber readers? What happens when writing becomes more attractive than reading? Will we become -- or are we already -- a nation of performers with no audience?

Es gibt ein Mittel gegen die Einsamkeit, die einen plötzlich in einer fremden Stadt überfällt: etwas kaufen: eine Ansichtskarte, einen Kaugummi nur, einen Bleistift oder Zigaretten: etwas in die Hand bekommen, teilnehmen am Leben dieser Stadt, indem man etwas kauft [...]

The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract between you.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

So often we see solitary contemplation as simply the correct way to engage with nature. But it is always a political act, bringing freedom from the pressures of other minds, other interpretations, other consciousnesses competing with your own.

It's part of being a watcher, forgetting who you are and putting yourself in the thing you are watching. That

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.

Books. I am attracted and repelled; books are conversations that are not addressed to me and I want to sneak up and listen but I also want to be invited in. If I was invited in the conversation would not be what it was.

There are real books all around the house, everywhere. She could pick one up and in mere seconds she could be involved in something that makes her laugh and feel nervous and hot and cold and forgive the world its absurdity.

She pointed out that to claim to be apolitical or neutral in the face of such injustices would be, in actuality, to uphold the status quo - a very political position to take and on the side of the oppressors.

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.