Hospitality Quotes - Page 14

• When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, Patriotic

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Peace, War, Shows

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• I must follow them. I am their leader.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Military, Empowerment

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”

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• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  Beau Bridges

  Travel, Entertainment, Bars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

  Eboo Patel

  Compassion, Care, Stewardship

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• It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

  "A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander".

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• The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Book, Home

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• Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.

  Margaret Chan

  Cities, Population, Levels

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• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

  Esther Williams

  Swim, Beverly Hills, Pool

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

  Buddy Holly

  Rocks, Play, Rock N Roll

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• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  Benjamin Zander

  Leadership, Jobs, Vision

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• If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

  Benito Mussolini

  Leadership, Reality, Giving

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• The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Vision, Hallmark

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books

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• He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

  Charles James Fox

  Relationship, Leadership, Opinion

  On Pitt's scheme of Parliamentary Reform, in J. L. Hammond 'C. J. Fox' (1903) p. 75

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• We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

  Ricardo Semler

  Relationship, Leadership, Facts

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• Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Determination, Race, Challenges

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

  Conrad Hilton

  San Francisco, Bay Area, World

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• It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

  Homer

  Guests, Offensive, Speed

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Grateful, Japan, Earthquakes

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• There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel. I have definitely come to call it my home, and have my favorite go-to spots. But most of all it's the people. The southern charm, and hospitality. And some great shopping never hurts. As fun as Music City is during the day, the real magic happens at night ... The lights, the energy, the music, how could you not love this town?

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hurt, Fun, Real

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• There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

  Amy Sedaris

  Home, People, Touching

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• Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

  Herman Melville

  Europe, Civilization, People

  Herman Melville (2012). “Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.211, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

  Hesiod

  Friendship, Enemy, Invites

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