Quotes About Engagement

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

There can be no neutrality in a polarized world because there can be no nonpartisan or apolitical institutions.

I am not alone, you see;—and those whose time is fully occupied seldom complain of solitude.

I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

we expect a wine of quality to demand something from us.

He would surely have agreed that we were alike where it really counted: we were both hard-core devotees of what I call You-Are-There Reading, the practice of reading books in the places they describe.

Launched by Emma Thompson in 2006, annefranktree.com is a site where people can choose a virtual leaf and link up with a community of people who feel connected to Anne Frank.

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

Bep's engaged! The news isn't much of a surprise, though none of us are particularly pleased. Bertus may be a nice, steady, athletic young man, but Bep doesn't love him, and to me that's enough reason to advise her against marrying him.

How did you ask a man, Oh, by the way, did you ask me to marry you the other day or were you merely suggesting I become your mistress? Formality was the key to surviving this, she hoped.

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

How alive am I willing to be?

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

Telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.