Engaged Quotes

“I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“We drive down the road in complete silence for a few miles listening to 50 Cent. As soon as he tells us that he's into having sex, he ain't into making love, Casey turns the volume down and begins telling me the following information: " I love you so much. We're going to have the best life together. I can't wait." Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was, but it's not until she looks me in the eye and says in all seriousness, "You're my soul mate," that I realize I am not going to marry her.”
― Chad Kultgen, The Average American Male

“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.”
― Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites

“She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’

'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.

'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I took her in my arms and kissed her.

And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.”
― Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“I'm not going to let you go " He was silent for a moment. "Carly " he said gently. "Remember when we were first engaged”
― Amanda Stephan

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The heart power once engaged and awakened is capable of achieving and realising the things to make your life wonderful.”
― Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

“Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you have a long-term goal in your life, all your activities become a part of that goal. You can keep yourself engaged for several hours and even days when you are reading an interesting book. When you are writing your new book, you can be busy for a year. When you want to transform the society, help the needy, educate the poor children, your goal can keep you engaged fruitfully for life. The greater is your goal, the higher is your energy level for achieving the goal and the less time you have to get bored.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Get engaged, to any man on earth? No, good heavens, nothing more ridiculous could be imagined!”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gipsy

“The second thing you could do with your life is – spend life, many people are engaged in this activity.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something”
― Sunday Adelaja

“BE HERE NOW

Do you feel fully present and engaged in the way you live your life? Do you immerse yourself in the moment or do you strive and struggle as you negotiate the distractions of our modern world? It’s easy to have blind spots regarding how you are showing up for life when you are consistently bombarded with distractions, commitments, and personal preoccupations, isn’t it?”
― Susan C. Young, The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact

“Entertain every idea that entertains you. To be entertained by an idea is to examine it in the context of your own engaged presence.”
― J. Earp

“We need to be engaged with our community to thrive.”
― Pam Malow-Isham, Brilliant Words to Grow By: A Devotional Celebrating the Duality of Life

“She has started to taste her own cooking in a professional way again. Detached, critical, and overly scrupulous. It tastes somewhat different from how she remembers it. Her flavors have gotten somehow stranger, darker and larger: she stirs roasted peppers into the hummus and apricots and capers into the chicken. And she walks into the basement storage room one day and discovers Victor Hernandez kissing Mireille on the butcher block table among the onion skins. Mireille, then Sirine, burst into laughter. Later, Sirine realizes it's the first time she's really laughed in a year.
A month later, Mireille is engaged to Victor Hernandez and Victor moves in with her and Um-Nadia. He makes three different kinds of mole sauces for their wedding dinner, and chocolate and cinnamon and black pepper sweetcake.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

“I couldn’t remember the last time things had been so easy.”
― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart Forever

“Why did people insist on telling you not to panic when the only rational response to what they’re about to say is panic?”
― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart Forever

“I have really disliked the government since witnessing the fraud they engaged in to deny my disability payments.”
― Steven Magee

“I want to create the most value possible between sunrises and sunsets (and beyond)—being engaged in the literal lifetime value of time.”
― Richie Norton

“If you didn’t get a little wet crossing the river you might have crossed it, but you didn’t experience it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Despite how crowded it might be, you can always find a seat on the sidelines of life. However, not all empty seats should be sat in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The people sitting in any stadium might be ‘at’ the game, but very few of them are actually ‘in’ the game. And we might remember that life is one big stadium.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Companies that have engaged in dangerous or illegal activities in the past are now at great risk as social media has gone mainstream.”
― Steven Magee

“The world is witnessing one of the greatest frauds the Florida government has ever engaged in.”
― Steven Magee

“After the discovery of my girlfriend’s secret affairs, I knew I was not to blame as I also discovered the secret affairs she had engaged in with her previous long term relationship!”
― Steven Magee

“The garden awoke in spring, glorious. Rhubarb, bellwort, bloodroot, blue squill; violets carpeted the earth, and in the woods, trilliums, twayblade, cowslips, cress, lady's slipper, wild iris, wild ginger, wild pussy willows, wild, wild everything. Robert Trout and his fiancée, Lavender, walked often there, and by the river. Her mother's old haunts. All of it a wonder to Robert, for his constant travels over the past years had begun to render most landscapes an indistinct blur. He'd not attended closely to the earth's springtime bounties; there was never time. Now he was like a boy, exclaiming over each tender sprout, each clump of new moss, and "Look, here's one with a thousand tiny white stars." Lavender told him the names of the many early blooms. And their meanings. It was her school of flowers, she quipped. "And here is one named especially for you, Robert---a trout lily. For us." They stopped. She showed him its lovely mottled leaves, creamy belled petals. "And see," she continued, "how it bows its head, as if too bashful to reveal its face. And like we humans, these beauties sleep at night and open themselves in morning's light.”
― Jeanette Lynes, The Apothecary's Garden

“Your version of alignment will be unique to you—and, make no mistake, it will require you to be fully present, engaged, committed, and open to evolution. Maybe, like me, you’ll need to reexamine how, when, where, and with whom you are working within your current business model.”
― Michelle Jacobik, The Path To Profits: An Entrepreneur's Guide To Having It All... And Still Having A Life!