Engaged Quotes - Page 17

• [The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

  Bill McKibben

  Dying, President, Coral Reefs

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• [Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Issues

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather than the word detachment, I usually use the word non-attachment. That can be wholesome when we care and are completely engaged with each other but are not attached to things being a certain way.

  Tara Brach

  Cutting, Attachment, Withdrawal

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Space Flight, Way

  Source: www.rt.com

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• In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very clear proof that they have engaged in cyber attacks. This isn't new. It's not unique to Russia. There are a number of states where we've seen low-level cyber attacks and industrial espionage and, you know, other behavior that we think should be out of bounds.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: time.com

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• We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency. And it's unprecedented in U.S. history. Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Effort, President, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

  John Krasinski

  Special, Answers, Belief

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• I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, People, Married

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

  Mandy Moore

  Believe, Institutions

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is a side of what he does that I'd like to do, a bit more privately. I'm not sure he is as interested in history, as I am.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Doe, Different, Facts

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

  Nat Hentoff

  Community, Violence, Pacifist

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged in against all of the media because the people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they do need us. You know, they need good, strong skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is, whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

  Megyn Kelly

  Strong, Fun, Hate

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.

  Howard Gardner

  Teacher, Motivation, Exercise

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Saws, Inspired

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.

  Noam Chomsky

  Circles, Effort, Definitions

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions?

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Government, Disease

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Idols, Intellectual, Care

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Height, Resistance

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

  Noam Chomsky

  University Students, Choices, Climate

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Opportunity, Raises Questions

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries - Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

  James Mattis

  Country, War, Taken

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

  James Mattis

  Doe, Problem, Killing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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