Guests Quotes - Page 13

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

Annie Dillard

Life, Fall, Airplane

ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

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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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Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!

L. Neil Smith

Home, Gun, House

L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke

Love, Inspirational, Running

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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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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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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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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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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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When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.

George Stevens

Admitting, Care, Want

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I would guess that it might have made a difference. It certainly didn't hurt us in any way. Feng shui creates a balance that I believe adds to the comfort zone of rooms and space, and that is felt by guests and residents.

Donald Trump

Hurt, Business, Believe

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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin

Girl, Mother, Dinner Guests

Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Edmund Gosse

Unwelcome

Edmund Gosse (1873). “On Viol and Flute”, p.27

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The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Guy de Maupassant

Wine, Glasses, Half

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To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

Mean, Flames, Dying

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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

Arthur Rubinstein

Wine, Glasses, Dust

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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

Clouds, Rivers, Mind

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Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

Andre Tchaikowsky

Inspiration, Lazy People, Innovation

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It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Homer

Wish, Speed, Should

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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

John Cleese

Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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If you wanna leave be my guest you can step
Feelin' irreplaceable listening to Beyonce
Well, OK, I'll put you out on your bday

Lil Wayne

Rap, Listening, Steps

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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

Annie Dillard

Gratitude, Thinking, Doors

1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

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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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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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Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

Norman Nicholson

Weed, Bird, Scare

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