Invitations Quotes - Page 12

• Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

  Timothy Keller

  Looks, Done, Want

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• Briefs need limitations and invitations

  David Rockwell

  Needs, Limitation

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• People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Party, People, Wish

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• I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.

  Christopher Walken

  Daughter, Son, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hispanics are the fastest-growing evangelical group in the country right now, an important constituency. But Trump's views, especially his views on immigration, did not exactly go over well with this faith constituency. Rev. Rodriguez told me that Trump's invitation created something of a stir in his world.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Views, Important

  "With His Choice Of Inauguration Prayer Leaders, Trump Shows His Values". "Morning Edition" with Richel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2017.

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• When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

  Dalai Lama

  Interest, New Places, Seeing

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.

  Sylvia Plath

  Discipline, Long, Doe

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• I always say the Syrian problem as isolated case, as Syrian case, is not very complicated. What makes it complicated is the interference from the outside, especially the Western interference because it's against the will of the Syrian government, while the intervention of the Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah is because of the invitation of the Syrian government.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Hezbollah, Problem

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, World, Mail

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• We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

  Rowan Williams

  Jesus, Commitment, Shows

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• A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

  Renata Adler

  Strategy, Linear, Conversation

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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• We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Believe, Book

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Choices, Challenges, Stories

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.132, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

  Christopher Moore

  Law, Vampire, Cop

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping: Book 1: Pine Cove Series”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Operations, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

  Robert Grudin

  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sexy, Eye, Play

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.63, St. Martin's Press

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• Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

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• They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ignorance, Sleep, World

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

  E. Lockhart

  Short Life, Party, Home

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• Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Hands, Shoes

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• When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

  Rita Gelman

  Men, Interesting, Sitting

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• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Thinking, Office, Meditation

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• Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

  Eliza Leslie

  Giving, Bores, Giving In

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.58

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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