Quotes About Engagement

Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

Enemies are so stimulating.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

A motto of mine had long been, "When the heart isn't in it, all zest in the job is destroyed

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

But…what if he pretended to be engaged? His mother would feel free to marry the man she loved. How about if I introduce her to my fiancée? Think that would do it? Jim started, then dourly eyed the six chocolate hats Davis had lined up on the counter. Why haven't we heard anything about her until now? Who is she?

They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.

She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.

Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...

Now and again she would break in with "Yes, yes, that's very interesting," "Of course you can," or "Had you thought of …?" Never, but never, was there an "I don't think that's very practical" or "Why don't you just wait and see how it goes?

It took my year in England to make me realize how much I had been simply treading water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in and seeking out life.

the exuberant are easily engaged. And exuberance is, in its very effusiveness, liable to misconstruction and suspicion, often misinterpreted as sexual interest when none is intended, or as implying a more sustained emotional commitment than is warranted by the high spirits that, however persuasive, may prove to be transient or directed in any number of places.

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically.

It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time. Everything must be so much more…

Wenn ich den Eindruck hätte, dass in dem, was Sie da sagen, auch nur ein Körnchen Vernunft steckt, würde ich mir vielleicht die Mühe machen, mich auf eine solche Diskussion einzulassen. Aber wie die Dinge liegen, werde ich einfach an etwas anderes denken, während Sie weiter vor sich hin plappern.

Now I wonder what it could be you are reading there, Mr Stevens.' 'Simply a book, Miss Kenton.' 'I can see that, Mr Stevens. But what sort of book -- that is what interests me.

Why write a novel if it was going to offer more or less the same experience someone could get by turning on a television?

that all good stories, never mind how radical or traditional their mode of telling, had to contain relationships that are important to us; that move us, amuse us, anger us, surprise us.

But I can see him studying his newspaper, breaking off regularly to look up at the passers-by on the pavement outside. From the way he does this, I had thought at first that he was waiting for a companion, but it would seem he wishes merely to greet acquaintances as they pass by.

You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!

Antonio- Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma. Peter- Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Tell me when you want to pick it up again. Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight. I'll do that. Lunch?

Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you? You've never been interested in me before. You've never been interesting before. -Cassandra and Paige