Quotes About Engagement

Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening.

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.

No one is listening until you fart.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

Eyeball to eyeball.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

Meditation has to be a part of our every activity. Its not sufficient to meditate for one hour and be unaware for twenty-three hours. It must become the inner thread of all our actions.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That's because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.

If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I'm going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?

I am hearing you. On radio. Is why I come.