Non Participation Observation Quotes & Sayings

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever. — O.J. Simpson

There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. — Betty Smith

I didn't start making music in order to be famous. — Mark Ronson

Damn it, I have to stop this bleeding. Oh, Will I would truly love to kick your ass for this. If you die, I swear, I'm going to kill you again." A Fine Line the Ancients (Part I). — J.C. Brennan

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it. — Jane Mayer

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease. — Erich Fromm

I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers. — Chelsey Philpot

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests. — John Carroll

Having fun?" Instantly Squirrelpaw's head whipped around and her green eyes flashed fury at him. "That's right, have a good laugh, you stupid furball! — Erin Hunter

Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death? — Lloyd John Ogilvie

If a man says, "I have had such-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man," he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for "God hath respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. — Walter Scott

Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears. — Frithjof Schuon