#engage

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#engage #everything #i #i can #invisible

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#i #i do #lot #speaking #travel

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. ↗

— Thomas More

#does #educated #engaged #events #exposed

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#engage #extent #living #many #pitch

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#culture #engaged #had #problems #survival

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #at-risk #builds #century #community

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#end #engaged #life #means #men

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#astute #audacious #change #committed #courageous

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#engaged #friends #getting #getting married #grave