Engaged Quotes
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.
Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.
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.
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them, mostly importantly really, is to have a brand that has purpose and value.
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.
When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.
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.
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.
Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged adding to healthier open rates and ROI.
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.
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
