(602 quotes found)
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement”
Oscar Wilde
“Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.”
Buddha
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”
“We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a "romantic”
Warren Buffett
“It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I look forward to this continuing.”
Henry Ford
“World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.”
Caroline Seebohm
“The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
Georges Bataille
“Engagement does not mean endorsement,”
Madeleine Albright
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