#engagement

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#between #choice #conflicts #confront #costly

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#free #his #judgement #keep #main

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#ago #breaking #depressed #dramatic #embarrassingly

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#anything #engaged #engagement #get #going

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#another #engagement #had #happy #husband

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#another #engagement #had #happy #hard

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#engagement #humor #marriage #relationships #humor

I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#fighting #humor #proposal #change