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Letter "E" » engagements
«Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.»
«'Enjoying it?' I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me...They'll be announcing their engagement any day now.»
Author: Joanne Kathleen Rowling
(Writer)
| Keywords:
announcing, Any Day Now, boss, come home, crouch, crouched, dad, engagement, engagements, enjoying, obsessed, onto, reckon
«I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren?t aware how much it carried me through.»
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Clients and customers,
Sales
| Keywords:
attend, beach, client, convention, engagement, engagements, pebble, polygamy, previous, spouse
«Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
engagements, hearing, jury, lied
«I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.»
«I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
decline, engagement, engagements, owing, subsequent
«I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
engagements, ethics, grateful, in the long run, long run, Open and, promotes, promoting, The Long Run
«It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.»
«Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
alienate, breach of promise, dine, engagements, intimacy, sup, supped, sups
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