Engagement Quotations

People would like to see peace and stability, and that is why we have had engagement with the ethnic armed groups. That's why our reform process is based on the wishes and the will of the people.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

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.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

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.

Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

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.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

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

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

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

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

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

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

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.

On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

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

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

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

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

As you know, I did not support the United States' engagement in Iraq and have long had concerns about Afghanistan... But I obviously have always been 100 percent supportive of our military.

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

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.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

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

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

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

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

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

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.