Quotes About Engagement

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

how to get people interested in our faith.

La scelta di chiudersi in casa sbarrando le finestre per non vedere, abbandonando ogni cura per la cosa pubblica è rimasta del resto fino ai nostri giorni, in particolare in quelle regioni meridionali diventate preda della criminalità.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I think politics is too important to be left to politicians.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

If you don't vote, you're a moron.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Wherever you are, be all there.

Imagina lo que sería posible si dejamos de ir a la iglesia y empezamos a ser la iglesia!

Being involved and being committed are miles apart. In our world today, most people are relationally involved, but few are truly committed.

To win the battle for our minds, we must engage, because there is no other way for us to defeat evil. The days of being neutral must be over.

I looked at her, looking being one of my better law-enforcement techniques.

All the things that have happened to you, all them years. Where you've been and who you've been with. All the different people I've met. I always seem to get on with them. If I see people I always talk to people. That's just what I do.

Winston Churchill was likewise a poor student, admitting that "Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

Sometimes I put a star in the right-hand corner to signal that this paper has thinking on it that I might want to share in a mini-lesson the next day.

Okay, you guys, look up here. Omar did something good readers do.

Hmm. I wonder if you got stuck somewhere in the last twenty pages, because you're the first one to complain that this book is boring. What's the last part you remember?

Before students leave, I ask for an exit ticket. I have students record on a sticky note one question they have about the book.