Quotes About Engagement

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.