Quotes About Engagement

I am trying to participate

Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than "What's up?

Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" I just wanted someone to tell me the truth. "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." Is that bad? Yes.

É só que às vezes as pessoas usam o pensamento para não participar da vida.

É estranho, porque às vezes leio um livro e acho que sou a pessoa do livro. E também, quando escrevo cartas, fico uns dois dias pensando no que imaginei em minhas cartas. Não sei se isso é bom ou ruim. Mas eu estou tentando participar.

The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like

Parfois, on se réfugie derrière ses pensées pour ne pas avoir à s'impliquer.

Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.

Vivir al margen ofrece una perspectiva única, pero siempre llega el momento de entrar en escena y ver el mundo desde adentro.

Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.

At every moment, we are volunteers.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

No involvement, no commitment.

At some level the subject of any story or poem is always the reader, and the writer who ignores this does so at his or her peril.

The businessmen spoke little and did much, while the politicians did as little as possible and spoke much.

If you're gonna play, play. Don't play!

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.

I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.