Quotes About Engagement

Here's the deal," a close Trump associate told Priebus. "In an hour meeting with him you're going to hear fifty-four minutes of stories and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in whenever you can.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.

The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn't understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to be made in order to act; indeed, he could not even stay in the room long enough to decide on a course of action. For Trump, the fog of war would waylay him before the first command could be given.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking.

he had an almost autistic level of unresponsiveness;

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

Toute expérience poétique engage au moins trois termes : un sujet, un monde, un langage».

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

L'avantage de tenir un discours moral, c'est que ce type de propos a été soumis à une censure si forte, et depuis tant d'années, qu'il provoque un effet d'incongruité et attire aussitôt l'attention de l'interlocuteur ; l'inconvénient, c'est que celui-ci ne parvient jamais à vous prendre tout à fait au sérieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows--every researcher, every writer, every spy.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

De même, un livre qu'on aime, c'est avant tout un livre dont on aime l'auteur, qu'on a envie de retrouver, avec lequel on a envie de passer ses journées.

todo el mundo se ha acostumbrado a que las personalidades se expresen en los medios sobre los temas más variados y a que por lo general digan cosas previsibles, y ya nadie les presta verdadera atención;

Lõpuks hakkab inimene alati huvi tundma kommunaalide vastu.

Ljude možete pustiti da pri?aju naširoko, oni ?e uvek biti zainteresovani za sopstvenu pri?u, ali treba, ipak, usko?iti s vremena na vreme, re?i nešto, minimalno.

La tradicional lucidez de los depresivos, descrita a menudo como un desinterés radical por las preocupaciones humanas, se manifiesta ante todo como una falta de implicación en los asuntos que realmente son poco interesantes. De hecho, es posible imaginar a un depresivo enamorado, pero un depresivo patriota resulta inconcebible

Leggermente a disagio per questa confessione, Jean-Yves si voltò verso di me: "E tu, Michel, cosa conti di fare qui?". La risposta più vicina alla realtà era sicuramente qualcosa sul genere: "Niente", ma è sempre un po' difficile spiegare questo tipo di cose alle persone attive.

One doesn't enter groups of people simply because one wants or needs to. One has an infinite number of opportunities that occur for no particular reason. Sometimes you feel a sudden unexpected pleasure at being where you find yourself.

let's make them work for us. Let's keep them busy in committees defending our full civil rights in return for our full support and let them use it as a wedge issue against the GOP. The last thing leading Republicans want to do, after all, is have an open conversation about LGBT equality.

I didn't mean to interupt you if you were looking for your friends Miss--' 'Callihan,' but you can call my Jasmine. Or Jas.' Or Snookums. Honeybunch. Hotsie Totsie Cowgirl. My Little-- 'It's nice to meet you Jasmine, I'm Jack.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!