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• No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Rooms, Shakes

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• I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Air, Bird, Fans

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• Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Eye, Play, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Believe, Inspiration, Artist

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• We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.

  Lauren Graham

  Party, Dresses, Want

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.196, Ballantine Books

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• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Dirty, Doors, Fake

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• Time is like a fashionable host
  That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
  And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
  Grasps in the comer.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Arms

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

  Horace

  Life, Past, Past Life

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• Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
  To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
  He prayeth well, who loveth well
  Both man and bird and beast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Farewell, Men

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 613 (1798)

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• And bid them love each other and be blest:
  And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,
  And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Love Each Other

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.344

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• Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Negative, Emotion

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• Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

  Aeschylus

  Thank You, Ties, Host

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”

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• The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

  Viola Spolin

  Meaningful, Player, Theatre

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• Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Receiving, Things To Do

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• Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn't know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind's corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Girl, Blue

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• For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Birth Rate

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• The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Feelings

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.125, NavPress

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• I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, House, Bedroom

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• How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for 7 years, and reduce per capita GNP growth over 25 years? A bill that will admit 30 million people to permanent legal status in the next 10 years? That will dramatically increase the annual immigration flow, and will double the guest worker flow?

  Jeff Sessions

  Average, Years, America

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• We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that are hurting today with high unemployment, but we seem to be more focused on how we can ram through this Senate a bill that would legalize millions and create an even more robust guest worker program. There are not enough jobs now. Give me a break.

  Jeff Sessions

  Hurt, Jobs, Race

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• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Godly

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• During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Country, Bjp, Terrorism

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