Quotes About Engagement

He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.

How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.

Students don't learn by being lectured at; then learn by thinking hard, solving problems and dissecting proofs.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Returning home on the evening of his engagement he had bewildered Mrs. Tims by seizing her as she stood in front of the kitchen-stove, a frying-pan full of sausages in her hand, and waltzing her round the kitchen, frying-pan and all. Subsequently five of the six sausages had been recovered; but the sixth was not retrieved until the next morning when, in dusting, Mrs. Tims discovered it on the mantelpiece.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at that particular moment in their lives.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

Develop your situation sensors. –   Get involved in projects outside your area. –   Participate in extracurricular activities. –   Communicate your personal "why.

the fastest way to get to people we don't already know is through contacts as far away as possible from our daily routine.

Every single one of our acts is ruled by the laws of economy. When we first wake up in the morning we trade rest for profit. When we go to bed at night we give up potentially profitable hours to renew our strength. And throughout our day we engage in countless transactions. Each time we find a way to minimize our effort and increase our gain we are

He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

he's going out with Suffolk; you'll have to

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

If you understood everything in the mind of an author then reading his books would be no fun at all.

If we were all engaged in some conversation, she would direct most of her contributions towards me, as if I were the front wall of a squash court.

Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows.

Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved.