Happily Engaged Quotes

#1. They look so relaxed, so happily engaged in the present moment, these four women drinking cappuccinos and savoring the creamy cannolis.

Sophia Bar-Lev

#2. And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.

Judith Mackrell

#3. The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#4. There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard

#5. If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

Mike Love

#6. In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

Johnny Isakson

#7. Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

Julia Glass

#8. The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#9. If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

Leslie Charteris

#10. Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

John Dryden

#11. Consciousness has an inner depth at every stage, and is not something that emerges at some stage down the line. Forms of consciousness emerge as forms of energy/matter, but consciousness itself is simply alongside all along, as the principal reality of every form.

Adnan Al Adnani

#12. In the long run, every love needs someone to witness and acknowledge it, to validate it, or it may turn out to be just a mirage.

Paolo Giordano

#13. By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

Karen Abbott

#14. As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee

Norman Vincent Peale

#15. You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.

Mike Caro

#16. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

#17. But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!

John Beevers

#18. Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

Opal Whiteley