#engagement

Calm down, it isn't a ring” I laughed and he pushed the box across the table to me and I blushed and opened it. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#happiness #jagged-edge #love #ring #love

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes. ↗

— Patrice Kindl

#althea-crawley #arguing #comfort #convenience #engagement

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#compliance #control #engagement #motivation #motivational

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all. ↗

— Prince William

#around #because #close #engagement #excitement

I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#i #like #ring #want #yellow

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#deployments #engagements #get #lot #presidents

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#disengagement #does #government #identify #israel