Quotes About Engagement

Again she lost herself in the talk, and again her words seemed to be warming her whole body.

Okay you guys, pair up in threes!

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

If you read a newspaper on any given day, you will see that most of the gains we are making as a society are still being done by activist citizens' organizations.

viewer has to be hit on the head with the same ad seven or eight times before it begins to register.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

When in the presence of a child, get on the floor.

Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.

There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do.

Back then, we were all still willing to take the "risk," if "risk" is the right word to describe entering into the lives of others, not merely in symbol but in reality.

She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.

free-form conversations that could eat up whole days.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

Everybody knows that if people hang around for any length of time in an urban area without purpose they are likely to become "antisocial.

Il romanzo e' una strada a due sensi dove la fatica che si richiede a entrambe le parti alla fine risulta uguale. Leggere, se lo si fa come si deve, e' difficile tanto quanto scrivere.

The Noted Activist

the surest motivation I know, the one I feel deepest within myself, and which, when all is said, done, stripped away - as it is at the moment - seems to be at the truth of the matter for a lot of people, to wit: it's something to do. [...] Why did you bake that banana bread? It was something to do. Why did you make a fort in your living room? Well, it's something to do. Why dress the dog as a cat? It's something to do, isn't it? Fills the time.

I saw I was lucky to have Lamin: while he engaged in his favorite activity—intense, whispered financial negotiation, with several parties at once—I was free to wander over to the cannon, to sit astride it and look out over the water. I tried to

He] looked troubled, for he had strayed too far from small talk right to the center of things--it happened more and more these days--and now must try to return to the things that didn't matter.

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.