Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
Quotes about disengaged (14 Quotes)
Prime Minister Sharon moved forward on a bold proposal and disengaged from Gaza. Now the Palestinian leadership has the opportunity to move forward on putting in place the institutions necessary for a democratic state to emerge.
Even the international community recognizes that it disengaged too quickly.
Disengaged workers don't have traction. They're not accomplishing the same amount of work that they used to. The person has pulled his or her heart out of the work.
One disengaged worker can affect the morale of the entire team. Nip it in the bud. Don't let it fester.
I have big dreams. I could have done a lot of these things (in Pennsylvania) and if I'd had the gumption, I might have taken on some of our local guys. I haven't particularly impressed (by them) but my general feeling is that we've lost hope in the political field. Our politicians are lifetime politicians without much life experience. They talk the talk but their kids aren't fighting in this war. Their families aren't suffering poverty. They don't know what they're doing anymore. They may know the political nuts and bolts of their proposals, but do they ever feel it No. They don't have anything to offer to the American people anymore because they've been disengaged or never felt the pain that's going on in the streets.
Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2144,149,150) Commentary The word 'sacred' means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place.... 'Wherever you are, turn your face' toward the sacred Mosque means, 'Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated....
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
What troubles us is that the automatic pilot was functioning up to a certain point, and then it was disengaged, possibly by human action.
Very often when people come back from a war, they're disengaged emotionally and spiritually, ... You've told them it's OK to go and kill people, and then they're supposed to come home and life is supposed to be OK, and it's not OK.
He's not disengaged. That's an inaccurate perception. He just concentrates on what he feels is important. He doesn't do things just because other coaches do. In fact, he probably doesn't do them because other coaches do. But he's on top of the things he believes are important to winning.
If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.