Engagement Quotes - Page 8

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

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

Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.

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.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

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

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things.

If [Donald Trump] comes forward and if he does that, then, of course, there will be some engagement.

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

You have the intelligence front and the engagement front. On the intelligence front, the French are better than many of their European counterparts. But they are really challenged in two specific ways.

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

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

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.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?