Quotes About Engagement

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

My pranks have never been about getting a negative reaction. They've always been a tolerance test for the person I'm engaging with.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you. You must simply fit yourself in it. You must see how—you must be vigilant.

As you say the cue word hello, lure your puppy to stand sideways instead of straight into you. Now pet them shoulder to tail instead on top of their head.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

Details aren't automatically interesting.

It's interesting to watch my friend speak carefully about what he thinks I'll find interesting.

Ivo sat and listened, the look in his blue eyes enrapt and I knew, though I could hardly believe it, that he was not bored or uninterested, that to him I mattered as I had never mattered to anyone in my life.

He'd learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn't let him distract you.

So what advice does your website offer?" "According to this, newly engaged couples touch all the time. They can't bear to be next to each other and not feel each other. Does that mean I have permission to stroke your breasts in public? Maybe this won't be so bad after all.

When you started this engagement farce I thought I was going to hate every minute of it. Instead I loved every minute of it. I loved every minute of being with you. You're bright, sexy, funny, confident, sexy, strong, warm—did I say sexy?

You don't always have to change the whole world," Paige murmured, "just a small part of it, and sometimes those changes are small but it doesn't make them less important. Without the cog, the wheel wouldn't move.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

be brisk, be splendid, and be public.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

She watched Trey nod his head to her question before asking, "Would you like to see what I retrieved from my bag? I promise you'll love it and beg for more.

Funny how hard it is to keep talking, when someone asks you to start and not stop.

When we ask, "How are you?" we are generally met with the equally flat "Not too bad." The whole thing becomes a go-nowhere "connection-lite" interaction. If I reached out and asked you right now, "How is the state of your heart, in this breath?" I'm already connected to you.