Engaging Quotes
299 quotes by 282 authors
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I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or…
— Randy Newman
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Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires,…
— Rod Coronado
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An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem…
— Istvan Deak
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A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to…
— Peter Galison
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You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song…
— Ryan Ross
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This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially…
— Barry Mazur
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Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another…
— Andrew X. Pham
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With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the…
— Geeta Rao Gupta
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That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,…
— Roxane Gay
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Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.
— Mooji
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Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase…
— Lawrence Durrell
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After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince…
— Michael Foley
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
— Edward Zwick
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Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men…
— Ashley Judd
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An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.
— Stanley Wolpert
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The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles…
— William Howard Taft
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When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or…
— Jeanine Pirro
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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.
— Adam Fletcher
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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