Quotes About Engagement

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

These books are a great deal harder to read than they were to write.

Lass dich fesseln, flüchtiger Gedanke!

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Being scared is nothing," the old woman said. "Being bored, or ignorant—now that's a crime.

From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners, business types—two males, one female— are in a quandary about the name of the duck paddling Otter Creek, the duck being brown, but too large to be a female mallard. They really want to know, and I'm the human-watcher behind the nook of my table, camouflaged by my stillness and nonchalant plumage. They really want to know. This sighting I record in the back of my Field Guide to People.

And you still haven't answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of

And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.

Just because you will not see the work completed, does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly's father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man.

said when he came back inside. "I was telling Elan before you came home

Kathy," she repeated. "Can you hear me?" Kathy nodded and her eyes rolled backward.

To live thoughtfully with Christlike love we must allow ourselves to be disturbed by the grotesque realities surrounding us and sympathetically enter into the nightmarish suffering of others.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.

It takes two to know one.

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.