Quotes About Engagement

at the commencement of the battle-cruiser action the German Von der Tann had fought an unimpeded ship-to-ship duel with the British Indefatigable. In fourteen minutes' firing with her eleven-inch guns the Von der Tann had sunk the Indefatigable without receiving a single hit from the Indefatigable's twelve-inch.

Weakly protected battle cruisers should never have indulged in a sustained gunnery duel, especially when there were four vastly more powerful fast battleships available in the same scouting force. Armoured cruisers should never have been there at all. Destroyers obscured the enemy.

Thus in the early summer of 1916, caution was not going to be thrown to the winds. Inferior forces from both sides were to be "lured" into "traps." The big gun might be fired, if it survived the torpedoes, but only when the odds were overwhelming.

The skeins are tangled. Some butterfly shaman up in the north beats his puny fucking wings and the storm gathers before you know it. Chaos gathers, like a bad poet's verse. We run damage control, but the rules of engagement have changed. You think we're any happier about it than you? We've got our balls to the wall here, hero. We're fighting half blind, nothing works, not the way it should, not anymore. Which

attention is an act of connection

If a tourist enters a food stall thinking he's going to be cheated, the salesman will sense this and obligingly cheat him. But if a Frenchman senses that a visitor is delighted to be in his store, and takes a genuine interest in what is for sale, then he'll just open up like a flower.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, "Yes! Yes! I win!" "You don't win," Anthony snapped. "Oh, it feels like I've won," she reveled.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

You marry to continue the conversation.

I tried to explain about refusing an unsought gift, about action versus passivity.

The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.

Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. Julie Andrews Edwards

It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.

Backward now?' he suggested. 'Are you going to call out our lovemaking like a billiards game?

the brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]

she would be incapable of not broaching. It took

What did you say to the messanger mi'lady? Do you remember the exact words of your last proposal? I probably said, Will you marry me? Connor smiled. He pulled her toward him, lowered his head and kissed her just long enough to stun her. He lifted his head then, looked into her eyes, and finally spoke to her. Yes Brenna. I will marry you.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack, he said. Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England. We're attacking England? Gideon asked, astonished. No, Brodick answered. Though the thought of it warms my heart.