Understated Engagement Quotes

#1. The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

Vittorio Alfieri

#2. Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.

Alastair Reynolds

#3. She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin

#4. What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

David Millar

#5. What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. The one flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

Buddy Ebsen

#7. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Pope Francis

#8. There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase.

Ian Plimer

#9. To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

Samuel Chadwick

#10. I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

Matthew Shipp

#11. Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

Linda Sue Park