Engaged Quotes

777 quotes by 666 authors

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've… — Ayi Kwei Armah
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
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them… — Ludwig von Mises
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence… — Chris Rose
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead… — Jennifer Egan
Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? "Of course… — Zsa Zsa Gabor
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me… — Harper Lee
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that… — Malcolm X
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort… — Dean Karnazes
Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE… — Rainbow Rowell
When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged… — Nick Hornby
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. — Charlaine Harris
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to… — Susan Sontag
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class,… — Cornel West

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