Best 72 quotes in «engaged quotes» category

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

I took her in my arms and kissed her. And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.

I'm not going to let you go " He was silent for a moment. "Carly " he said gently. "Remember when we were first engaged

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

She has started to taste her own cooking in a professional way again. Detached, critical, and overly scrupulous. It tastes somewhat different from how she remembers it. Her flavors have gotten somehow stranger, darker and larger: she stirs roasted peppers into the hummus and apricots and capers into the chicken. And she walks into the basement storage room one day and discovers Victor Hernandez kissing Mireille on the butcher block table among the onion skins. Mireille, then Sirine, burst into laughter. Later, Sirine realizes it's the first time she's really laughed in a year. A month later, Mireille is engaged to Victor Hernandez and Victor moves in with her and Um-Nadia. He makes three different kinds of mole sauces for their wedding dinner, and chocolate and cinnamon and black pepper sweetcake.

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’ 'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile. 'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.

Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away.

So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

The heart power once engaged and awakened is capable of achieving and realising the things to make your life wonderful.

We're engaged to be engaged, aren't we?

We need to be engaged with our community to thrive.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

The second thing you could do with your life is – spend life, many people are engaged in this activity.

The truest nature of a man comes out when he is sexually engaged

We drive down the road in complete silence for a few miles listening to 50 Cent. As soon as he tells us that he's into having sex, he ain't into making love, Casey turns the volume down and begins telling me the following information: " I love you so much. We're going to have the best life together. I can't wait." Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was, but it's not until she looks me in the eye and says in all seriousness, "You're my soul mate," that I realize I am not going to marry her.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

What happens if one day we’re standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you’re washing and I’m drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

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 you aren't.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Don't be fair, be engaged.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

If people don't get as engaged as the tea party was, we're going to lose.

If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.