Quotes About Engagement

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

What are those?" I asked, pointing up. "Those are ceiling," Varya said. "And here—sink. See—only turn so, and ffft! water!

Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

Twenty minutes ago he'd left his brother's engagement party and headed straight for the belly of San Francisco's Mission District.

I am tired of these affairs, where no one asks what books I've read, only a handful of relatives are interested in how I'm advancing at my job, and everyone quizzes me about my dating life.

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

He'd obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear. I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon. "It's that vacant expression," she said, "people just want to fill the empty void".

This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing it is they do.

He was one of those people who constantly seems to be having a conversation with someone other than the person he's actually talking to—presumably someone much more politically committed. And interested.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

It's always the easy way out, being an existential chicken. Not really being there. It's harder, it's riskier, to be present.

What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures.

We've created a system that demands almost no engagement with our food; we've wrung all the responsibility and sweat equity from the process. It's not that we're getting something for nothing - after all, we do pay for our food, and we suffer the consequences of dining from the industrial trough. But charging a package of center-cut pork chops to your Visa is a hell of a lot different than facing down the source of those chops with a .22 in one hand and a well-honed knife in the other.

Click here' is not a call to action, because I will only take action with a reason, and clicking is no reason. Remove the 'Click here' from any link, and it will be clearer and more direct. (The only time I ever use 'Click here' is when it is not at all obvious that the target is clickable, which should never really happen.)

He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.

Though the most be players, some must be spectators.

Others began soliciting speech from him, where did you buy those awesome boots, is that a hickey or a bruise, do you still practice martial arts?

We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?

to gauge their interest—just in case.

I never read the business pages of the newspaper; I couldn't relate to the stories.