Involved Quotes - Page 27

• Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

  Lois Wyse

  Children, Remember, Forget

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Drama, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1264, Scholastic Inc.

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• They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

  John Irving

  Regret, Awkward, Procedures

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.

  Lynne Truss

  Gay, Issues, Black

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• Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

  Carson McCullers

  Mean, Love Is, Two

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Different, Elevators, Frightened

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.77, Macmillan

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• The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Psych, Creating

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.

  Steven Brust

  Powerful, Eye, Sorcery

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Long Ago, Storm

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

  Miriam Toews

  Expectations, Joy, Becoming

  Miriam Toews (2001). “Swing Low: A Life”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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• and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, World, Body

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• Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Waiting, Tears

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.138, Penguin

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• There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Atheist, Believe, Pride

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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• Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Humble, Men

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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• Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Memories, People

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• Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Islamic, Community, Majority

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• These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Secret, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin

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• It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Passing Away, Doe

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.92, Penguin

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• For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

  Frank Abagnale

  Class, Style, Faults

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• Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

  Amelia Earhart

  Encouraging, Strong Women, Positivity

  "Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart". Book by Randall Brink, 1995.

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