Engagements Quotes
Where duty meets the calendar.
Engagements can mean a royal visit, a full week of appointments, or the discipline of showing up again and again. This set gathers voices describing what that pull on their time actually felt like, from packed diaries to formal duty, as in Age.
We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements...
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Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many...
I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every time I go back, I think, 'Why am I in Germany?' I do know that...
Accommodation Quotes
The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden...
I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with...
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements...
Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
Action Quotes
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her...
In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.
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Some lines here treat engagements as an honor, others as a grind that never quite lets up. Pair them with Action or Accommodation for more on obligation and hospitality.
