engagement

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f2311a4	LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.	marriage relationships humor engagement	Oscar Wilde
dd7e2e0	When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.	jealousy marriage humor engagement	P.G. Wodehouse
8f14b46	Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.	marriage newlyweds engagement existentialism	Muriel Spark
7632518	But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.	responsibility presentation sensationalism interest news thoughtfulness seriousness engagement	Alain de Botton
b06fdf2	The rose I gave you was an emblem of my heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and leave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked it?' 'Have I not said enough?	heart love engagement hand rose gift	Anne Brontë
226849e	"Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten." He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. "But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?"	love wedding engagement	Sophie Kinsella
a7191c9	"I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid," said Mr. Azrael. "Money means nothing where I come from."	money funny death bribe frantic garage hat-box lexus under-the-bed grim-reaper engagement-ring cash weird tragic engagement car dead die sad dying	Rebecca McNutt
d02b74d	Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake - you invade a country without understanding its music. - Norman Mailer	even-with heritage relevance engagement	Mark Kurlansky
cf9626d	He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.	evangelism compromise engagement connection	Barbara W. Tuchman
56ebb7b	A lack of engagement sends the message that you may not care, are not interested, are too busy, or that the other person does not matter to you. Even though this is rarely your intention, it can happen when you're not being mindful and deliberate to connect in the moment.	selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement	Susan C. Young
35969fd	"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"	selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement	Susan C. Young
379cf1c	Your life is happening in the NOW, yet the present moment is often squandered by your thinking about what has happened in the past or may happen in the future.	selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement	Susan C. Young

f2311a4

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

marriage relationships humor engagement

Oscar Wilde

dd7e2e0

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

jealousy marriage humor engagement

P.G. Wodehouse

8f14b46

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

marriage newlyweds engagement existentialism

Muriel Spark

7632518

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.

responsibility presentation sensationalism interest news thoughtfulness seriousness engagement

Alain de Botton

b06fdf2

The rose I gave you was an emblem of my heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and leave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked it?' 'Have I not said enough?

heart love engagement hand rose gift

Anne Brontë

226849e

"Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten." He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. "But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?"

love wedding engagement

Sophie Kinsella

a7191c9

"I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid," said Mr. Azrael. "Money means nothing where I come from."

money funny death bribe frantic garage hat-box lexus under-the-bed grim-reaper engagement-ring cash weird tragic engagement car dead die sad dying

Rebecca McNutt

d02b74d

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake - you invade a country without understanding its music. - Norman Mailer

even-with heritage relevance engagement

Mark Kurlansky

cf9626d

He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.

evangelism compromise engagement connection

Barbara W. Tuchman

56ebb7b

A lack of engagement sends the message that you may not care, are not interested, are too busy, or that the other person does not matter to you. Even though this is rarely your intention, it can happen when you're not being mindful and deliberate to connect in the moment.

selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement

Susan C. Young

35969fd

"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement

Susan C. Young

379cf1c

Your life is happening in the NOW, yet the present moment is often squandered by your thinking about what has happened in the past or may happen in the future.

selling-success positive-first-impression-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes networking engagement

Susan C. Young