Engagement Quotes

• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Eternity

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• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Eye, Eight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Wisdom

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• It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

  Brendon Burchard

  Alive, Feels

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• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Freedom, Fear

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

  Paul Hornung

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  Gary Hamel

  Real, Decision, Rebel

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• I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

  Sean William Scott

  Stuff, Knows, Engaged

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• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  Walter Koenig

  Opportunity, Actors, Wells

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• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Breakup, Promise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Leadership, Understanding, Listening

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

  Susan Sontag

  Wake Up, Passionate, Want

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

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• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  Felix Adler

  Relationship, Fashion, Inspirational Love

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

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• Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

  Joan Blades

  Mother, Believe, Issues

  "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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• 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 of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Important, Want

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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• I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

  Helen Garner

  Book, Thinking, People

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• All things do go a-courting,
  In earth, or sea, or air,
  God hath made nothing single
  But thee in His world so fair.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Air, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

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