Quotes About Engagement

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible.

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

I nodded. He threw his paper at me. Here, keep up with the world, even if you don't want to join it.

Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.

When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

To live is not to breathe but to act.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

Born as I was the citizen of a free state and a member of its sovereign body, the very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs, however little influence my voice may have in them.

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,... ...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.

Sé que hay que ocupar a los niños en algo y que la ociosidad es para ellos el peligro más temible. ¿

I warn the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am unable to make myself clear to those who refuse to be attentive.

Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ahí la más incómoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.

Cuando me he fijado en algunas páginas de un autor que debe ser leído con atención, mi espíritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.

As soon as anyone says of the affairs of the state 'What do I care?', the state may be given up for lost.

If instead of making a child stick to his books I employ him in a workshop, his hands work for the development of his mind. While he fancies himself a workman he is becoming a philosopher.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I no doubt would have insisted on home schooling.

It's a dead issue. These days you can hardly get people to read about a live issue. People are issued out.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

had all thirteen families in Horse Mesa register to vote, and on election day, Jim drove me into Tortilla Flats. I kept the ballots in one hand and my pearl-handled revolver in the other, daring anyone to try to hijack democracy by stealing the twenty-six votes I had been entrusted with. "Hold on, everyone!" I declared when I arrived. "The votes from Horse Mesa are here, and I'm proud to announce we had one hundred percent turnout.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)