Engagement Quotes

445 Engagement quotes by 377 unique authors

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of… — Michael Pollan
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. — Oscar Wilde
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… — Julio Cortazar
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde
So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that. — Tim Gunn
The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and… — Audrey Niffenegger
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? — Elizabeth Gaskell
Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When… — Seth Godin
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. — Miranda July
At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement… — Richelle Mead
Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty… — Oscar Wilde
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world.… — Bell Hooks
In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them. — Ilona Andrews
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man… — Neil Gaiman
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. — David Foster Wallace
Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous… — Jennifer Estep
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. — H. L. Mencken
You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir.… — Jessica Day George
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look… — Sophie Kinsella
How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. — Daniel H. Pink

Who Wrote These Engagement Quotes

377 authors contributed a total of 445 Engagement Quotes, led by these top contributors: