Engaging Quotes
299 quotes by 282 authors
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
— Karen Armstrong
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I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
— Hillary Clinton
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There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then…
— Diablo Cody
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at…
— Margaret Halsey
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I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect,…
— Kano Jigoro
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I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
— Evelyn Underhill
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More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
— Thomas Sowell
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and…
— Harrison Ford
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and…
— Roberta Williams
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my…
— James Rebhorn
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced…
— Sun Tzu
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
— S. J. Perelman
Who Wrote These Engaging Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 299 Engaging Quotes, led by these top contributors: