#engaged

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#date #engaged #first #three-and-a-half #weeks

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#background #came #deeper #earth #effect

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story. ↗

— John Grooters

#forget #grab #story #love

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

#marriage #married #marriage

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#engaged #horizons #i #open #struggle