Quotes of Involvement - somelinesforyou

“ None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. ”

- Bible

“ Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis,... there was obvious Saudi involvement. ”

- Pat Roberts

“ Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. ”

- Erich Fromm

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

- Stephen R. Covey

“ We have to be prepared for a long involvement. We have to do it not just rhetorically. We have to have the resources, we have to expand our army, our Marine Corps, we have to provide them with the best equipment possible,... There's lots of things we can do. ”

- Jack Reed

“ No involvement, no commitment. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Learning to live with what you're born with is the process the involvement the making of a life. ”

- Diane Wakoski

“ If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. ”

- Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason

“ America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ”

- Nadine Gordimer

“ None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ”

- Martina Navratilova

“ People who give are rewarded, not monetarily, but because their involvement represents an expression beyond themselves. ”

- Henry A. Rosso

“ Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. ”

- Diane Wakoski

“ I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither… ”

- Bill Clinton

“ It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude… ”

- Samuel Johnson
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