Avoiding Social Engagements Quotes

#1. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Lemony Snicket

#2. If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

#3. And Ellie, if Fin is offering his heart to you, it's just a formality because believe me when I say you already have it.

Rachel Higginson

#4. Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.

James Joyce

#5. I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to beat Dad at his own game, using the ability he didn't believe I had.

Ha! Take that, you muggle!

K.J. McPike

#6. It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

Robyn Davidson

#7. One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Joan Smith

#8. Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Jacques Barzun

#9. I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

Reif Larsen

#10. When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

George W. Bush

#11. Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

William Shakespeare

#12. Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#13. It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Kevin Smith

#14. I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt to get me out to dinner.

Nathaniel Hawthorne