Engagement Quotes

• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Eternity

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• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Eye, Eight

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

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• Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Heartbreak, Wisdom

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Freedom, Fear

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

  Ian Hutchinson

  Leadership, Privilege, Investment

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• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  Ian K. Smith

  Thinking, Pleasure, Combination

  "Medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.

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• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Umpires, Shore, Left

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

  Chuck Hagel

  Surrender, Appeasement, Appease

  "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.

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• 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

  Choices, Conflict, Indifference

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• I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Married, Remember

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• 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

  Integrity, Mean, Diligence

  Letter to his son, John Mason, June 12, 1788.

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• When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Peace, Struggle

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

  Robert MacNeil

  Commitment, Years, Lasts

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• You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

  Maya Angelou

  Good Morning, Strong, Eye

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.134, Random House

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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

  Military, Allies, Process

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Appreciation, Believe

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• There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

  Woody Allen

  Suffering, Three, Wedding Ring

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, May, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Love is a game that two can play and both win.

  Eva Gabor

  Love, Valentines Day, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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