Famous Quotes & Sayings

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

Russell Johnson

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.

Paris Hilton

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

Joschka Fischer

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

The guy threatened to stab her with a pair of scissors. That's pretty violent. Thankfully, she gave up the wedding ring, gave up the engagement ring. I know it's a tough thing to do, but it's a better outcome than if she had tried to fight.

A lot of times, people will get down on the situation with the unions and with the UAW. But this wouldn't have worked without good engagement at the local level with the UAW. They understand that improving quality and productivity is important for their long-term success as well. It's been a real team sport.

Frederick Sanger

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

That is not the type of engagement that we're talking about.

Cameron Russell

It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

Evan Wolfson

There is no marriage without engagement

Ken Wilber

The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

P. J. O'Rourke

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

Paul Muldoon

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

Neil Patrick Harris

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

Linda Howard

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

Juliette Binoche

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Alan Light

The level of engagement wouldn't have gone away. If he was going to be an activist, he would have been all the way an activist. If he was going to be a father, he would have been all the way a father.

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.

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

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

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.

Andrew Greeley

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Seth Godin

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