Quotes About Engagement

You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to

Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation.

Are you a good listener? Do you ask questions that help the other person become a better communicator? Do people feel comfortable around you, or do you dominate conversations?

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous

Most important, perhaps there was a way to do so without browbeating or scolding, or mounting a soapbox. Perhaps he could get them without their knowing they were got. If he could only find the way.

An international celebrity, he said, was better off "leaving politics to the chaps who are paid to do the job, dear.

He was 'always busy, seldom rushed. It was a pleasant, convivial lifestyle'.

He's very private now," commented Brian. "He communicates by emails when there's a business discussion, but that's it.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

When you're talking to Mike, you have his undivided attention and you feel like you're the most important person in his world.

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had--I don't know what--the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.

In the attempt to be "relevant" one may fall into syncretism, and in the effort to avoid syncretism one may become irrelevant.

separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More

the history of Christian attempts to discern the signs of the times makes discouraging reading. At

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Charles Manson was going to get married. He's 80 years old, and serving a life sentence in prison. Well, the marriage is off. And today I saw that his profile was back on eHarmony.

Harrison Ford proposed to Calista Flockhart and then slipped the ring around her waist.

Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!