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Quotes About Engagement

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.
~ Malin Akerman
Life is what we are alive to.
~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.
~ Marc Almond
TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.
~ Marc Blucas
All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.
~ Marc Maron
I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.
~ Marc Maron
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.
~ Marianne Williamson
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
~ Mark Nepo
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.
~ Frederick Lenz
The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
~ Frederick William Robertson
as if a mischievous intelligence were at work. Yet I have come to the view after five years of involvement in this field that this subtlety is intrinsic to it and must be embraced if we
~ John E. Mack
When I speak in casual conversation, I try to start a mental clock in my head. I actually learned this from Marty Nemko, a San Francisco career coach. He told me, "For the first thirty seconds after you start talking, imagine a green light in your head. After thirty seconds the light turns yellow. At sixty seconds, it's red." That's a good piece of advice for most any conversational situation. It takes some mental energy to monitor myself, but it works.
~ John Elder Robison
I would make my own war movie for trick-or-treaters, one in which they would be the stars.
~ John Elder Robison
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.
~ John Eldredge
We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.
~ John F. Kennedy
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
~ John F. Kennedy
The intelligent man makes certain reservations as to the choice of his listeners.
~ John Fante
Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.
~ John Feinstein
The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.
~ John Flanagan
Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse." He cackled breifly at his own wit.
~ John Flanagan
Forty, sleepy, overweight, comfortable Arridi townsmen, who hadn't fought a real engagment in twenty years or more, wouldn't provide much resistance to thirty yelling, fiendish, bloodthirsty, gold crazed Skandians who would come screaming up from the beach like the hounds of hell.
~ John Flanagan
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.
~ John Flanagan