Involved Quotes - Page 30

• It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Reality, Analyzing, Foundation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

  James Frey

  Mean, Feelings, Littles

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Punishment, Justice

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

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• Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perfectly Normal, Numbers, People

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.9, Pottermore

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• The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.43, Penguin

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• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, War, Teaching

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Long, Trying, Warfare

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silence, Tragedy, Might

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Connections, Needs, Unions

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• If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

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• We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Objectivity, Knowing

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• Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Numbers, Depth

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. “I told you to stop flinching.” And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved.

  Nalini Singh

  Teeth, Ears, Lips

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.49, Penguin

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• It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

  Golda Meir

  Growing Up, Important, Want

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• Who are you, what are you doing here, who is Hood, why does he want Julie, and where is Julie's mother?" "Is that all!" He wiped the red smudge off his lip with the back of his hand. "Yes. No. Why is the cauldron important, where did it go, how is Morrigan involved, where do you go when you disappear, and why do you keep stealing the maps? Okay, now that's everything.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Hands, Important

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.101, Penguin

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• Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Nuisance, Mouths

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• I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

  Wallace Stevens

  Noble, Accents, Rhythm

  1923 Harmonium,'Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird', pt.8.

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• It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Notebook, Moving, Years

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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• I’d always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love - or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could get how far, and I could never figure out if there was more luck or skill involved, or some unknowable combination of the two. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

  Tammara Webber

  Games, Skills, Two

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Understanding, Mind

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• Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

  Ursula Vernon

  Hurt, Fall, Hard Work

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• Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Real, Emotional, Giving

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Guy, Periods

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• You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’t ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blow, Looks, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.54, Penguin

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• He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Needs, Arms, Sometimes

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.60, Random House

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