Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Key

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

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.

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.

Al Franken

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

Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Brendon Burchard

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

Our story is unique. Our engagement is unique. Our ring is unique. So our wedding should reflect us.

Martin Seligman

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I look forward to this continuing.

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.

Jiang Zemin

patriotic and combat-ready officers and soldiers must make themselves ready for at least limited engagement with U.S. firepower.

Dalai Lama

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

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.

Aristotle

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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.

William Temple

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

People are realizing that learning is proportional to interaction and engagement with the subject.

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

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

Jeffrey Zeldman

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

Ciaran Hinds

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Too often, the Security Council's engagement is inadequate, selective, or after the fact.

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.

Howard Schultz

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Seth Godin

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

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.

However, if you backtrack to the point of why I did this, I did this in accordance with the rules of engagement and the command-control structure that I was working under.