Civic Engagement And Community Quotes

#1. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

Thomas Ehrlich

#2. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G.H. Hardy

#3. Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

George Santayana

#4. Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

Robert Black

#5. There's April in her hair. Motion and stillness. Wings and earth. There are tears, and there is ... friendship. There is velvet, and traveling, and distance, bones and blood, summer coming again as it always does, love.

Laura Kasischke

#6. Talking to you is like talking to a black hole - ideas go in and nothing comes out.

James M. Jackson

#7. Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Bela Bartok

#8. The fate of one man or woman is the fate of all men and women.

Marty Rubin

#9. There weren't so many transvestite prostitutes in Oaxaca in those days; Flor really stood out, and not only because she was tall. She was almost beautiful; what was beautiful about her truly wasn't affected by the softest-looking trace of a mustache on her upper lip, though Lupe noticed it.

John Irving

#10. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.

William Shakespeare

#11. The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Danny Elfman

#12. So... it's her. She's the Game Changer for you?

L.M. Trio

#13. When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.

Dylan McDermott

#14. Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Jay Woodman