Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Pickersgill

The rules of engagement are established. There have been one or two slips but nothing politically fatal.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Bram Fischer

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.

Brendon Burchard

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Randy Falco

Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

Timothy Correa

Brotherhood is not only the engagement of serving one another; it is the purpose of bettering one another.

David Schwoegler

We want any engagement like that to be totally lopsided, one-sided, dominating. And this is the kind of weaponry that does it.

Chuck Hagel

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Caleb Colton

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chloe Sevigny

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Earl Warren

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Denis Waitley

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Sun Tzu

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

Malaika Arora Khan

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

John Livengood

An independent (owner) who has established relationships with (his) clientele is a very important part of the industry.

Patricia Fripp

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do

Christine Martino

This is a real enhancement to the relationship.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

Alan Mills

Ultimately you have to really stay on top of these relationships if you want to be strong yourself,

Shakti Gawain

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.