Irrelevance Engagement Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity. — John Guare

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family. — Hilary Swank

Alto: She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback. — Walter Isaacson

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. — Jean De La Bruyere

Love is nothing but lust misspelled. — Dan Simmons

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett

Madison described the state of play well in May 1798: "The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views. ... 22 Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad." Extreme measures — Jon Meacham

You see, in the Czech Republic, on December fifth, St. Nicholas goes around bringing candy and small gifts to children, accompanied by an angel and a devil. In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?) — Laini Taylor

Roque ... lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote. — Miguel De Cervantes

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change] — Al Gore

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was. — Jandy Nelson