Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bram Fischer

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Brendon Burchard

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

Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Aristotle

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

William Temple

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

John Key

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

Al Franken

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Chuck Hagel

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Dalai Lama

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Andrew Greeley

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Martin Seligman

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

Ciaran Hinds

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Jeffrey Zeldman

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Too often, the Security Council's engagement is inadequate, selective, or after the fact.

People are realizing that learning is proportional to interaction and engagement with the subject.

Our story is unique. Our engagement is unique. Our ring is unique. So our wedding should reflect us.

Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I look forward to this continuing.

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Jiang Zemin

patriotic and combat-ready officers and soldiers must make themselves ready for at least limited engagement with U.S. firepower.

We want any engagement like that to be totally lopsided, one-sided, dominating. And this is the kind of weaponry that does it.

Alan Light

The level of engagement wouldn't have gone away. If he was going to be an activist, he would have been all the way an activist. If he was going to be a father, he would have been all the way a father.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Joschka Fischer

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

Brotherhood is not only the engagement of serving one another; it is the purpose of bettering one another.

The rules of engagement are established. There have been one or two slips but nothing politically fatal.

Paris Hilton

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

That is not the type of engagement that we're talking about.

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.