Engaged Quotes · Page 19

[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters.…

— Erica Jong

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

— Michael W. Smith

A sort of fearlessness - the notion that a person could be comfortable with (even interested in) whatever arises. I sure can't…

— George Saunders

I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be…

— Bill Hybels

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

— Freeman Patterson

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

— Kenneth Clarke

I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up…

— Lena Dunham

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in…

— Sharon Salzberg

To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle seat and peddle into hurricane…

— Steve Ilg

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of…

— Marc Anthony

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

— Pat Pattison

No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.…

— William J. Brennan

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in…

— Michael Faraday

We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are…

— John Henrik Clarke

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow…

— Bruce Rauner

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a…

— Norman Myers

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always…

— Rebecca West

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is…

— Henry Giroux

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is…

— Susan Sontag

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was…

— Bram Fischer