Engage Quotes
720 quotes by 593 authors
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You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the…
— Bell Hooks
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism…
— Jonathan Franzen
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There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a…
— John Wyndham
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can…
— Richard Carlson
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I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with…
— Peter Cameron
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Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she…
— Toni Morrison
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We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can…
— Howard Zinn
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full…
— Bell Hooks
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Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can…
— Tessa Dare
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Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the…
— Steig Larsson
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what…
— Maya Angelou
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
— Bell Hooks
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Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years…
— Cassandra Clare
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