#gage

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. ↗

— St. Jerome

#battlefield #being #dead #dying #engaged

I love to engage with people who come to see us. ↗

— Joan Jett

#engage #i #i love #love #people

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#answers #easy #engage #find #half-baked

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

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

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#change #does #engage #give #opportunity

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#eaten #engaged #garlic #hasn #hatred

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

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

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#effective #engaged #nations #united #united nations