Quotes About Engagement

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Maintenant que la glace est rompue, causons." (Now the ice is broken, let's talk.) -After shooting into a mirror

Two hours later there was a longer wire from Winston Churchill

Tom McLeod turned to Macklin. "Do you hear that?" he asked.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

He had seemed a man with whom the right kind of dialogue would be possible.

She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.

Acum doreÈ™ti s? vorbeÈ™ti cu una din fetele sau b?ieÈ›ii sau ce-or fi care au scris mesajele, sau cu unul din cei È™apte pitici? Pe care l-ai dori? Îl avem pe Mutulic?, Hapciu', Moroc?nosu', RuÈ™inosu', Somnorosu', N?sosu' È™i înc? unul al c?rui nume va trebui s?-l caut pentru dumneata.

People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.

Whole worlds open up when we start a conversation.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't.

Can you hear me, all of you?

What I see is a woman who is not thinking about observing life but experiencing it.

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.