Quotes About Engagement

Our talks are wonderful, interplays, not duels but swift illuminations of one another. I can make his tentative thoughts click. He enlarges mine. I fire him. He makes me flow. There is always movement between us. And he is grasping. He takes hold of me like a prey.

I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.

What can you give when there is no self, when you have no sensitivity, no receptivity, no warmth, nothing to contact others with?

The main thing is to feel your presence—hear you humming or yawning, see your combs & brushes lying around, worry about which dress you should put on, etc.

She is so busy just BEING, talking, walking, making love, drinking, that she can achieve nothing else.

Would not write you a diary of life on board because it is only this: Oatmeal for breakfast. Swimming in the pool. Invitation for cocktail. Walk with So and So. Lunch with Mr. & Mrs. Nobody. Movies with Mr. Connecticut Yankee. Tea with Count Z. Cocktails with rich Jewish merchant. Dinner with X. Dancing until midnight.

the writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement.

To love anything, to appreciate anything, one has to live with it. Otherwise it has no meaning, no beauty.

when one is doing a work of imagination, one becomes completely absorbed in it, and that it becomes difficult to come out into the world and participate in it

I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.

Historically, discussions among Hindu sub-traditions were dialogical, and there was a notable absence of systematic efforts to stamp out other alternative ways of religious thinking. The language of engagement was not militaristic, and differences, though important, were not seen as problematic. It would be a tragedy if, like the opponents of Deepa Mehta's Fire, Hindus were to privilege a single interpretation of the tradition and hatefully denounce alternative understandings.

Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.

Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran.

If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.

I am not sure whether I altogether understand you. You make me curious. I don't much care about talking, but I should like to talk to you.

The need of showing myself to be confident and perfectly at ease, precisely when I am least so. Talked much too much, as I am inclined to do after a period of solitude, losing self-control; for I was aware that I was talking too much, but could not check myself. In order to speak well, I need to feel that I am being listened to.

The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.

Não estabelecer a sequência de meu romance no prolongamento das linhas já traçadas; aí está a dificuldade. Um surgimento perpétuo; cada novo capítulo deve levantar um novo problema, ser uma abertura, uma direção, um impulso, um lançamento para frente — da mente do leitor. Mas este deve me abandonar, como a pedra lançada deixa a funda. Consinto até que, bumerangue, ele volte a bater em mim.

Les idées ne sont pas faites pour être pensées mais vécues.

Nicole"—Trenton turned to

The artist has no right to an idea to which he is not socially committed, or the realisation of which could involve a dichotomy between his professional activity and the rest of his life.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

There is much more to apologetics than affirming the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things. Apologetics, we must recall, engages the mind, emotions and imagination. It appeals to beauty and morality, as much as to rationality.