Engagement Quotes - Page 28

• Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Prayer, Eating

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.199, Random House

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• As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would be catastrophic. This realization has led to increased engagement, not least through the humanitarian initiative. We must now use this broad engagement to garner support and to push for real results in the disarmament field.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Real, Long, Support

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• Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sex, Mean, Men

  Alexander McCall Smith (1995). “Heavenly Date: And Other Stories”

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• The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

  Richard Pascale

  Real, Learning, Knowledge

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.162, Harvard Business Press

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• Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

  Christian Marclay

  Thinking, Important, Different

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• To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Courage, Daring, Tenderness

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• No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love You, Names, Feet

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

  Cory Booker

  Kindness, Hate, Despair

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 01, 2016

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Soldier

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• One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, Enemy, Delay

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• My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

  Anne Tyler

  Inspiration, Decision, Literature

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