Be Involved Quotes

#1. Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

Stieg Larsson

#2. I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Amy Hardie

#3. I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

Karen Hughes

#4. Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

Ajahn Brahm

#5. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.

George MacDonald

#6. So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

Milton Friedman

#7. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#8. I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Lee Radziwill

#9. I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

Lawrence Kasdan

#10. when thinking becomes involved with faith, it will also understand that God cannot be thought without faith. That is the initial point from which evangelical theology proceeds.

Eberhard Jungel

#11. It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

Cliff Richard

#12. I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

Jodie Foster

#13. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#14. Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

Erik Estrada

#15. To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

Phil Collins

#16. I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Erykah Badu

#17. It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved
so easy to be loved
so hard to love.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

#19. The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America's history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his most three prolific cabinet members: Chase, Seward and Stanton.

Darin Gibby

#20. It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.

Dan Ellis

#21. There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.

Matisyahu

#22. Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

Mark McKinnon

#23. When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.

Jamie Dornan

#24. My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

Mircea Monroe

#25. If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

Richard Dawkins

#26. I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.

Jonathan Galassi

#27. I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Lindsey Shaw

#28. There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Cristina Kirchner

#29. We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Bill Scott

#30. It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.

Scott Bakula

#31. Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.

Greg Behrendt

#32. As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam,

Siraj Wahhaj

#33. I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

Dierks Bentley

#34. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.

Jimmy Smits

#35. Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Robert H. Jackson

#36. I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.

Tyler Christopher

#37. Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

DaShanne Stokes

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

Carl Sagan

#39. Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions.

Pete Carroll

#40. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

#41. Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

Gwenda Bond

#42. I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Michael Gira

#43. I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!

Dennis Quaid

#44. Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

Mia Bloom

#45. It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

Andy Samberg

#46. My thighs have been involved in many accidents
and now i can't get insured
and i don't need to be lured by you

Ani DiFranco

#47. I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

#48. I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

Baba Kalyani

#49. I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Bobby Cannavale

#50. We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Ma Jun

#51. We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

David Zucker

#52. Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus.

Dan Rather

#53. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Jerry Hall

#54. We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Chuck Grassley

#55. I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Theo De Raadt

#56. They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible.

Brandon Sanderson

#57. I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

David Morse

#58. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Matthew Kelly

#59. There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

John Ashcroft

#60. America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

Martha Graham

#61. Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

Jeremy Renner

#62. We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

Gary Zukav

#63. In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Willis Lamb

#64. I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

Frank Lampard

#65. I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

Dianna Agron

#66. And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Ian MacKaye

#67. Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And

Desmond Tutu

#68. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

Steve Erickson

#69. I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

Edward Ruscha

#70. I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

Gareth Gates

#71. When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

#72. I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

Sarah Brightman

#73. It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#74. You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.

David Zayas

#75. I dont care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off.

Harold Stassen

#76. It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Dominika Cibulkova

#77. Why can't any of this be simple?"
"Because people are involved.

John G. Hemry

#78. It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Ann Wilson

#79. My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

Barry Manilow

#80. Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Saban

#81. Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

Stevie Nicks

#82. You know, this won't be an easy thing, Adrien." An officer-involved shooting was not going to be fun, righteous or not. "The investigation you mean?" "No." He gave me that crooked smile. "No, I don't mean that.

Josh Lanyon

#83. In a health relationship, it should always be about them. Two people are involved. And both of them are risking their hearts, their souls, in order to stay together. If both parties don't support and appreciate the individuality of the other, the relationship won't work.

Lisa S. Lewis

#84. Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Tom Felton

#85. Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Greg Kinnear

#86. Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

Sofia Vergara

#87. The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

Ryan Phillippe

#88. If somebody had said last week that I'd be in ... involved ... with a human, I'd have knocked his head off. I mean, after howls of derisive laughter. But.

L.J.Smith

#89. I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Alanis Morissette

#90. As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

Nicola Monaghan

#91. I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Leroy Chiao

#92. The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

John Desmond Bernal

#93. Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings

#94. I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

Suresh Raina

#95. Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

Alan Dershowitz

#96. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.

Mitch Albom

#97. It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Pardew

#98. People who want to do better in their lives show signs of feeling discomfort and vulnerability. These are people who also possess courage, because there will be a great deal of risk involved.

J.Morgan

#99. When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.

Tyler Hilton

#100. When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.

Kris Allen