Engagement Quotes - Page 13

• I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Struggle, Long

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Party, Home

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

  Mary McGrory

  Boredom, Enemy, Politician

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• I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, Believe, Doors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• ALEC, has been I think a wonderful organization. Not only does it bring like-minded legislators together. But the private sector engagement in partnership in ALEC is really what I think makes it the organization that it is.

  John Boehner

  Thinking, Organization, Together

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Interesting, Way, Investment

  Source: www.gov.za

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• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.

  Simone Campbell

  Pain, Real, World

  "Pope Francis Brings 'New Gifts' to the Future of the Catholic Church". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Spring, Angel, Science

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• And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

  John R. Allen

  Real, Difficult Situations, Soldier

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• 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

  Different, Actors, Way

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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

  World, Demand, Retreat

  Anthony Giddens (1991). “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.184, Stanford University Press

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• There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

  Robert M. Gates

  Humility, Thinking, World

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• A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, World, Serious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

  Bette Ford

  Spiritual, Winning, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.

  Dennis Rainey

  Hurt, Couple, Commitment

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• I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Political, Chinese

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• Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

  Martin Seligman

  Important, Pleasure

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Wall, Distance, Knowledge

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• A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.

  Grant Morrison

  Reading, Player, Dvds

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• What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, Talking, People

  Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

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