Quotes About Engaged

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Do not just exist, be fully awake.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

We sometimes think of saint, or of people who are living like saints, as being ethereal, living in a higher spiritual realm. But of ten enough they live in an even less ethereal way than the rest of us. They are more fully of this earth, more fully engaged in the dirty, practical problems of the people around them.

Fourth, Swensen & Co. are extraordinarily thoughtful about and engaged with their client, Yale University.

I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we're smart. And that there's stuff that TV and movies—although they're great at certain things—cannot give us.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us—when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them—that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we're engaged in is fundamentally pointless.

Jake knew that his mother had a tendency to mistake rules, her rules, for principles. She did not bend because she did not have enough confidence to know when or how far. She did not listen well because one ear was always otherwise engaged - either listening to what she herself had just said or what she would say next.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts. I'm a lot at friends.' I like to go out for dinner. I don't have to be home one night a week if I don't want to.