Quotes About Engagement

When we attend to someone who greets us, it is not to require confirmation, attestation, certification of our identity. To respond to someone who greets us is to drop our concerns and thoughts, and expose ourselves to her. It is to expose ourselves to questioning and judgment. Simply responding to her greeting is to recognize her rights over us. Each time we enter into conversation we expose ourselves to being altered or emptied out, emptied of our convictions, our expectations, our memories.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Some of your colleagues stress the public's right to know, and they forget the people they want to 'speak out' are a part of that public.

Mutual interest is what separates courting couples from stalker and prey.)

Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen.

Le propre des grands livres est que chaque lecteur en est l'auteur.

Enseguida se nota cuando alguien está leyendo. El que lee, el que lee de verdad, está en otra parte.

Je pense que les plus coupables sont les spectateurs, répondit-elle.

Quel soulagement d'avoir trouvé la solution des fiançailles! C'était une réponse liquide en ceci qu'elle ne résolvait rien et remettait le probléme à plus tard. Mais gagner du temps est la grande affaire de la vie.

Several minutes passed before he realized that she had stopped reading, that she was staring back at him. "Is something wrong, sweet Rhianna?" "No, my lord." "Why have you stopped reading?" A faint smile played over her lips. "I stopped some time ago." He frowned. "Will you tell me why?" "Because the story is over, my lord." He looked at her for a long moment, feeling quite the fool, and then he laughed.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.

Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

When you know that the offense isn't just predicated on one guy and that every movement you make gives you a chance to be a part of the action, to make you a weapon, it's empowering.

There are many controversial topics out there - abortion, nuclear weapons, the 2nd Amendment, guns, whatever, the war in Iraq. You're going to be on one side, somebody's going to be on the other side. Invite those people to the table. Sit down and talk.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.