(606 quotes found)
“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
“I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.”
Paris Hilton
“Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.”
Charles Lamb
“It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.”
Charles M. Madigan
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
Mae West
“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
“By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.”
Robert H. Bork
“I'm sad to announce that I've called off my engagement. Over the last couple months I've realized that this is the right decision for me. We remain best of friends, and I'll always love him.”
“We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.”
William Carey
“His job is to keep out of her view, and her job is to go after him. By not engaging her, she appears shrill, a voice screaming in the wilderness. It's tactically smart.”
Hank Sheinkopf
