Engagement quotes
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
-- Adam Schiff -
Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.
-- African Spir -
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
-- Ana Beatriz Barros -
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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
-- Andrew Greeley -
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,
-- Angela Davis -
I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
-- Ann Coulter -
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
-- Anna Held -
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
-- Anthony Giddens -
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
-- Anton Chekhov -
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
There must be engagement: there must be protest.
-- B. W. Powe -
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
-- Barack Obama -
When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.
-- Beverly L. Kaye -
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
-- Bram Fischer -
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
-- Brian Solis -
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It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.
-- Brian Solis -
It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
-- Bryan White -
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
-- Carol Bellamy -
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
-- Chandra Talpade Mohanty -
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It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.
-- Christopher Locke -
TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.
-- Christopher Locke -
Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
-- Chuck Hagel -
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There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,
-- danah boyd -
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.
-- Daniel H. Wells -
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
-- David Bohm -
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.
-- David Ogilvy -
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
-- Denis Leary -
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
-- Dinah Sheridan -
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Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?
-- E. M. Delafield -
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
-- Earl Blumenauer -
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
-- Ed Markey -
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
-- Ellen Tauscher -
All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
-- Emily Dickinson -
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
There is no marriage without engagement
-- Evan Wolfson -
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
-- Frances Hesselbein -
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
-- Frederick Sanger -
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
-- Gabrielle Roy -
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Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.
-- Gary L. Tooker -
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
-- George Crook -
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
-- George Mason -
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen -
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I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
-- Gerald McRaney -
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
-- Guido Molinari -
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes -
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
-- Ian Hutchinson -
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
-- Ian K. Smith -
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
-- Iris Chang -
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Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.
-- James A Bellanca -
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
-- James L. Buckley -
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
-- James McGreevey -
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
-- Jane Alexander -
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A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.
-- Jared Leto -
Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.
-- Jason Miller -
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
-- Jeb Bush -
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The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.
-- John Dewey -
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
-- John E. Hines -
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
-- John Milton -
It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.
-- John Templeton -
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There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.
-- Jorg Immendorff -
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
-- Joschka Fischer -
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
-- Jules Asner -
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I would say I'm humanly engaged.
-- Juliette Binoche -
But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.
-- Julius Streicher -
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
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I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.
-- Kent McCord -
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
-- Kerry Washington -
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
-- Kin Hubbard -
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
-- Laurence Sterne -
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I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?
-- Linda Howard -
I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
-- Maggie Gallagher -
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I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.
-- Margaret Haddix -
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
-- Mark Strand -
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
-- Mark Zuckerberg -
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
-- Martin Seligman -
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[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
-- Mary McGrory -
Death cancels all engagements.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
-- Melissa Bean -
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
-- Menachem Mendel Schneerson -
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We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.
-- Michael W. Smith -
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
-- Miranda July -
I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.
-- Mwai Kibaki -
Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
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I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
-- Olivier Martinez -
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
-- Paul Muldoon -
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
-- Pauline Collins -
