Involved

Famous quotes containing the word involved:

“I cannot exaggerate the waste of the President’s time and the consumption of his nervous vitality involved in listening to congressmen’s intercession as to local appointments. Why should the President have to have his time taken up in a discussion over ... who shall be the postmistress of Devil’s Lake, in North Dakota? How should he be able to know ... who is best fitted to fill such a place?”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

“You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.”
—Charles Bennett (b.1899)

“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)