Top 100 Engel Quotes
#1. This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us.
The third time will reunite us.
Andrew Davidson
#2. Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our technologically-savvy customers the most up-to-the-minute data on homes, from listing prices to photos - all at their fingertips.
Anthony Hitt
#3. In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.
David Barton
#4. How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.
Patti Smith
#5. Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.
Anthony Hitt
#6. Our new app increases the exposure of Engel & Volkers' premier services and properties to the growing number of iPad users who are researching their real estate markets, locally and globally.
Anthony Hitt
#7. Engel & Volkers is unlike any other real estate company I have known and I am proud to be part of an organization that raises the bar to such high levels.
Anthony Hitt
#8. Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel.
On the comparative anatomy of angels.
Gustav Fechner
#9. President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.
Richard Engel
#10. Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
Richard Engel
#11. Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
Richard Engel
#12. But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.
Amy Engel
#13. While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
Eliot Engel
#14. Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
Richard Engel
#15. When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
Richard Engel
#16. Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
Richard Engel
#17. The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.
Richard Engel
#18. The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
Richard Engel
#19. He's an eighteen-year-old boy and this is his wedding night. I don't think he's taking me home to play checkers.
Amy Engel
#20. We're all fucked up, Lane, one way or another. It's only a matter of degree.
Amy Engel
#21. There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.
Richard Engel
#22. Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.
Richard Engel
#23. Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.
Amy Engel
#24. Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
Richard Engel
#27. Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.
Richard Engel
#28. Asks me what I do for a living, and I think, I'm only twenty-two. I don't do anything for a living except smoke cigarettes and throw my heart around.
Patricia Engel
#29. I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.
Richard Engel
#30. There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
Marian Engel
#31. The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs on civilian areas, on Sunni cities. There will likely be a response with car bombings here in Baghdad, and this could be a long fight.
Richard Engel
#33. Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.
Beverly Engel
#34. After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.
Richard Engel
#35. Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.
Eliot Engel
#36. For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.
Richard Engel
#37. The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.
Richard Engel
#38. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.
Beverly Engel
#39. It would leave a little rotten spot, right here." I push my fist into the soft space beneath my rib cage. "Something that would only get bigger and darker with time.
Amy Engel
#40. Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.
Richard Engel
#41. Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
Richard Engel
#42. You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.
Amy Engel
#43. Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.
Richard Engel
#44. So wait, shooting someone seventeen times isn't okay, but shooting him seventeen times with a fifteen-round magazine doesn't raise questions?
Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
#45. We can't be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect." When
Patricia Engel
#46. Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
Richard Engel
#47. The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.
Richard Engel
#48. The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
Eliot Engel
#49. Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.
Richard Engel
#50. Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.
Marian Engel
#51. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.
Richard Engel
#52. Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?
Florence Engel Randall
#53. Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
Richard Engel
#54. ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.
Richard Engel
#55. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.
Richard Engel
#56. Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.
Richard Engel
#57. Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
Richard Engel
#58. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.
Amy Engel
#59. Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.
Beverly Engel
#60. My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
Amy Engel
#61. A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
Eliot Engel
#63. Is it still manipulation if you know it's happening, but it works anyway?
Amy Engel
#64. The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
Richard Engel
#65. the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.
Marian Engel
#66. Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
Richard Engel
#67. The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.
Richard Engel
#68. For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
Richard Engel
#69. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.
Matthew Engel
#70. A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
Richard Engel
#71. The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.
Richard Engel
#72. Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders.
Richard Engel
#73. Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.
Beverly Engel
#74. My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.
Amy Engel
#76. There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.
Marian Engel
#77. Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.
Amy Engel
#78. Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.
Richard Engel
#79. Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
Richard Engel
#80. She makes her little house to shine, she thought.
Marian Engel
#81. I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.
Eliot Engel
#82. He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.
Amy Engel
#83. We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs.
Lewis Engel
#84. Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.
Richard Engel
#85. Maybe I'll be okay. Maybe I'll make it to the ocean.
Amy Engel
#86. He is such a child underneath all his alpha male bravado. A selfish child who thinks everything in the whole world is meant for him.
Amy Engel
#88. But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.
Amy Engel
#89. This is Florida, where they're cool about putting people to death
Patricia Engel
#90. Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
Richard Engel
#91. I kept seeing turning points. First the uprising. Then the creation of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA. Now a big assassination bombing in the heart of Assad's government. But the turn never came. It just got worse and worse.
Richard Engel
#92. There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
Beverly Engel
#93. An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
Richard Engel
#94. It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and where the most grotesque murders are tolerated in the name of a cult claiming to be a faith, a certain type of person will be attracted to it.
Richard Engel
#95. If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
Richard Engel
#96. I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.
Eliot Engel
#97. Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.
Richard Engel
#98. Strange how the sound of a single word can hurt more than a ruined shoulder, cut deeper than a bloody gash.
Amy Engel
#99. For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.
Richard Engel
#100. Again, I think of Carlito. The years I tried to serve his sentence with him, and how he let me. Maybe it was wrong of me, but sometimes I hoped that he'd see in my eyes how I'd stopped living for anything and anyone but him, and that he would tell me not to come back.
Patricia Engel
