Invited Quotes

• Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Things Change, Platforms, Planes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

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• The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Greed, Investing, Destruction

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 10, p. 293, 1977.

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• Everything you experience in your life is invited, attracted and created by you.

  Robert Anthony

  Law Of Attraction, Life Is

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.6, Morgan James Publishing

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• Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

  Faith Sullivan

  Past

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• Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Self Esteem, Imperfection

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• Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Leaving, Tables

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• We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Pilgrimage

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Miracle, Heard

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Aug 11, 2015

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• Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

  Arlene Francis

  Party, Life Is, Best Party

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• There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Hands, Hoe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ignorance, World, Poverty

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• When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

  Toni Cade Bambara

  House, Dinner, Napkins

  Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage

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• So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fun, Party, Addresses

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.252, Anchor

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• I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

  John Shelby Spong

  Accepted, Invitations, Ifs

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• If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Winning, Ideas, People

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

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• God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation

  Sara Groves

  Add, Creation, Plans

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• I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It's been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I've never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I'd use it as toilet paper.

  Joan Rivers

  Suicide, Party, Fire

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

  Hunter Hayes

  Guitar, Louisiana, World

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• Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

  William Gibson

  President, Vices, Shooting

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• Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

  Jesse Owens

  Hands, White, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, House, Rude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

  Andy Warhol

  Party, Home, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

  Marc Garneau

  Hands, Three, Arms

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• Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

  Germaine Greer

  Hotel, Has Beens, Corridors

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