#engagement

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

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. ↗

— George Mason

#attend #certain #correspondents #diligence #engagements

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

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#engagements #increase #must #number #our

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

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#born #days #did #eight #engagement

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

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#engagement #philosophy #spiritual-warfare #education

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ↗

— Helen Garner

#book #completely #doing #engagement #i

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#effective #engagement #european #future #i