Quotes About Engagement

Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.

Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.

Showing genuine interest is flattering and essential to conversing. If you are interested in how I lost sixtyfive pounds or how I started my business or anything else about me, I feel special. I also think positively about you and want to continue talking with you. The more interest you show in me, the more interesting you become to me. The simple act of truly being interested in the other person has an amazing effect on the conversation — it just snowballs!

The key is to have a genuine interest in what the other person is saying, along with a genuine desire to hear the response. So while you get to be quiet, you do not get to be passive. You must actively participate in the conversation.

No matter what your chosen topic of conversation, I cannot overstate the importance of being authentic when talking with someone. If you are not genuinely interested in what the other person is saying, no amount of planning or preparation will save you from a doomed conversation. Interest in someone else cannot be feigned.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

What's your name? Emma Gould, she said. What's yours? Wanted. By all the girls or just the law?

People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting.

Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

Alright, all right, I said. What if I tell you a story, instead? Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. Oh, aye, he said, sounding much happier. What sort of story is it?

You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.

Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

Don't let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there's something to say.

Washington knew what he was about, though; he listened more than he talked, and when he said something, it was to the point.

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No queríamos pensar, ¿sabes? Y es fácil no hacerlo. Durante un tiempo.

Well, let them look, he thought, quelling the urge. It only matters if she's looking back, aye? He

he looked up at once when

Asian culture is that people are quite excited about the players.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.