Quotes About Engagement

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

People knowing her, having her in their thoughts, saying things to her, coupling her acts with their acts – 'Take the calves in as soon as Ellen gets through.

I like to hold the chunk of remaining book as I read; I like to feel it diminish.

You," she might have said to a particular grackle. "Georgia. Is it?

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you." —G. W. CARVER

It is one kind of trouble to kiss your fiancé good-bye in the morning and immediately turn your thoughts to another man. But it's another kind altogether if the other man has been dead for nine decades, or is of the genus Sciurus.

More was expected of her, her usual engagement replete with queries and analysis and a kind of domestication of the topic so that it became like a furry pet with a life of its own, all of which he had come to depend on. The way a cat depends on your petting when it puts. The purring forces you to keep petting. Even after you're tired. Even after you want to move on. Veblen has been detained countless hours in neighborhood walks, not sure when to break away, by purring cats.

I want to talk WITH someone, not be talked at BY someone.

No. She wasn't happy spending her days reading about other people living their lives to the fullest, sultans risking it all for their people. She wanted to be living those things herself, doing them herself.

You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing, reading, science, art, music, math, social studies. By presenting myself as a writer with wide ranging passions - for astronomy, volcanology, art, music, history, and community service - I hope to inspire not only budding writers but also budding scientists, artists, activists...

Because when I first saw you I thought?no, I knew?you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me? "because I like questions.

Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.

To listen to a person is not passive.

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active, and Dottie had really listened.

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active

I was so enthusiastic about the books I had read that I could see my students watching me and getting interested in these books too—just because I was so excited about these books that I had recently read.

and she seemed to really listen, I could see her listening, and she responded exactly right somehow. I cannot remember what she said, but I remember thinking, Oh, she is right here with me.

Margaret Estaver," she added again. "Susan's at work." Margaret Estaver nodded as though she

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Common sense tells us that we can understand and navigate our way through that reality, and common sense tells us that the more we know about that outside world, the better we can act on it, both as individuals and as members of a community.

On one side, interaction with others sharpens our minds and deepens our understanding. But it also teaches us about our obligations toward others—

At Jeffrey's table, "the talk [was] always good, but never ambitious, and those listening never in disrepute.