Quotes About Engagement

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

A novel has to entertain -- that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page.

She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

That's the great American disease, we forget. We watch the disasters parade by on TV, and every time we say: 'Forget it. This is somebody else's problem.

He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be molded.

She wanted to know did that mean getting married. I said why not. We were never getting married, we could barely pull our act together to buy a phone plan.

In Lee County they say you have to look hard for a face you've not seen before, which surely was true for Mom, who'd directed anybody that could walk to where the Solo cups are kept on Aisle 19.

know how that sounds. But you get twenty people in a big circle talking and chugging, and the effect is pretty good.

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year.

Like I'm doing right now?" I perked up, thinking

I hollered back.

In a sense, you have to grab your reader by the lapels and say, 'I must tell you this story, or I will die!

Is she your first girlfriend?" I asked, my tone gentle. "I told you, she's not really my girlfriend," he said, ducking the question. "If she's occupying enough of your attention to keep you in bed until the sun sets, I feel safe using the word as shorthand.

He made his way to my table and squeezed in next to me as though it was the most natural thing in the world that he should be meeting me here. As usual, he was wearing a dark suit that fit him like an afterthought. He nodded a greeting. I returned the gesture, then went back to watching Grace play.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

After you have finished with the stone, the twigs and beetle, other things will suggest themselves, and you must take care of them. I see you are already tired. But you must stay. This is the pain of it all. You can't keep leaving.

If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.

to be satisfied with our work, we typically need a belief in the purpose of what we do. Amy

Quite apart from the instrumental benefits of choice—that it enables people to get what they want—and the expressive benefits of choice—that it enables people to say who they are—choice enables people to be actively and effectively engaged in the world, with profound psychological benefits.