Faithfully Engaged Quotes & Sayings

Today we often use deadlines - real and imaginary - to imprison ourselves. — Arianna Huffington

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. — Doug Collins

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's. — William Law

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure. — Peter O'Toole

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. — William Shakespeare

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room. — Aldous Huxley

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism — Robert Hughes

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. — Charlie Munger

I look down at the woman on her knees in front of me - her eyes wide and filled with lust. She sticks out her tongue and starts licking my cock like she's a cat, and my dick is her paw. Lick lick lick. — Jay McLean

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America. — Chris Christie

If our systems should fail, we would faithfully report the fact. We have no ego-protection that would cause us to deceive you or ourselves. Whereasyou are engaged in ego-protection right now. You thought you would be necessary during the voyage, and you now discover that you were not. This makes you feel bad. — Orson Scott Card

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society. — Os Guinness

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. — Emanuel Swedenborg

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me. — Frank Carson

People here will date goats. But no one wants to date a goat wearing Google glass. — Kara Swisher

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,
a real, not an imaginary,
and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. — Thomas Carlyle

Imagine now a different scene. Aaron and the Israelites are patiently and faithfully waiting for Moses to return. Finally, they see him coming down. But rather than tablets of stone, he carries the golden calf. And then they hear him speak: "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt" (Exod. 32:4). The prophet himself would have now engaged in idolatric substitution. He ascended the mountain to meet with God, but he has returned with an idol. Impossible? It happens every day, and to the best of ordinary prophets, even if it does not happen in such a crass way: the prophets may carry down from the mountain the tablets of stone, but at least some of the writing on them can be traced to the golden calf rather than to the true God of Israel. — Miroslav Volf

You just can't help topping your own levels of crazy,can you? — Kiersten White