Engagement Quotes - Page 5

• Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Good Life, Care, Joining

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  And Love, Virtue, Delusion

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• The loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Daring, First Love

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.246

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• A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

  Seth Godin

  Connections, Dialogue

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  Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Monday

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014

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• When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

  Courteney Cox

  Years, Together, Stuff

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• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it

  Wally Schirra

  Believe, Kids, Want

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• Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

  Rob Brezsny

  Sweet, Creativity, Giving

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Thinking, Tyrants, Suffering

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• Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Running, Real

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• Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Recovery, Commitment

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Men, People

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• But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

  John Perry Barlow

  Political, Degrees, Trouble

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August/September 2004.

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Evil, Decision, Mankind

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• Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sex, Dating, Social

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  Jerry Brown

  Technology, Opportunity, Destiny

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• For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Writing, Years, Joining

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

  Li Peng

  Views, Terrorism, Operations

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• At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

  Rose Tremain

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Struggle, Horizon

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

  Rodney Alexander

  Running, Issues, Campaigns

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• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  Samuel de Champlain

  Hunting, Might, Beavers

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