Engagement Quotes

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

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.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

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.

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.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

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.

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.

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

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

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

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

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.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

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.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.