Quotes About Engagement

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

You miss the life that happens in the middle zone—between now and what you think your life should be like. And when you miss those moments because you'd rather be doing something else, you are missing your own life. Those moments are gone. You will never get them back.

The exquisite paradox of this engagement is that when the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' This is Tarkovsky's aesthetic in a nutshell.

So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.

You always use that word remember,' said Milena. 'You say, remember, team. You never tell us to think.

William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.

Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

if there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

I finally figured out what e-mail is for. It's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?