(606 quotes found)
“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
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement”
Oscar Wilde
“Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.”
Edna Ferber
“World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.”
Caroline Seebohm
“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
“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.”
“Engagement does not mean endorsement,”
Madeleine Albright
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I look forward to this continuing.”
Henry Ford
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
