Quotes About Engagement

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of government, is to live under the government of worse men.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Anyone who's really fighting for justice must live a private life as a citizen and not as a public figure if he's going to survive even a short time.

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

Stay with me.' His eyes shone. 'Play with me.

There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization.

Always looking toward the next moment, the next month, the next event, rarely allowing myself the privilege of fully participating and embracing the happenings that were right before me for that day.

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.

At this moment nothing seems so difficult as squeezing pity into the semblance of avid interest.

Watch. I'm going to make you read the next sentence. THE NEXT SENTENCE.

Oliver laughed - actually laughed.I like this new Claire, he said. You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright. Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.

That smile tells me he's not done. That we're not done.

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate." — Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

She was laughing at something Dov was saying to her, but she was looking at me, like he was the distraction and I was the conversation.