Quotes About Engagement

If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.

After becoming engaged to my grandfather, and before marrying him, she did something rather brave in Istanbul in 1917—she went out with him to a restaurant.

K?z?n?n o kar???k çantas?na göz at?nca ÅŸehirle, insanlarla, kurumlarla kendisinin baÅŸard???ndan daha derin ve düzgün bir iliÅŸki kurduÄŸunu, kendisinin yaln?zca sat?c? olarak tan?d??? pek çok insanla pek çok ÅŸeyler konuÅŸtuÄŸunu anlard?.

In its simplest terms, clicking can be defined as an immediate, deep, and meaningful connection with another person or with the world around us. Typically

What happens in that moment when we first sense our interest in another person? Why do we click with some people and not with others? Why do those moments make us feel more fully connected not just to that individual but to everything around us? Is there a way to foster or proactively create that kind of instant intimacy?

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears... If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

what cannot be shunned must be embraced.

I hate it when you 'deal' with me." "OK, what if I 'handle' you instead?

I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear.

And there it was. The moment a man answered her right back instead of getting his dander up, why, she flashed a smile fit to charm the warts off a toad.

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.