I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I…

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

— Lena Dunham

I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and…

— David Byrne

“The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to locate.”

— Christine Montross

“The concept of intimate relationships suggest different things to different people. Many will associate it with sex, others with love and some with friendship,…

— Charlotte Wolff, M.D

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do…

— Amy Vanderbilt

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to…

— Tom Bosley

I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's not an…

— Esther Perel

Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than…

— Anonymous

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.”

— Harriette Arnow

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

— Graham Hancock

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

— Abigail Johnson

“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have…

— Nadeem Aslam

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer