Invited Quotes - Page 19

• We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Care, Dinner

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Birthday, Redneck, College

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• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  Hank Azaria

  Thanksgiving, Dance, Kids

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• Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

  Pema Chodron

  Acceptance, Curiosity, Welcome

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• There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

  W. H. Auden

  Matter, Three, Funny Business

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• I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.

  Chester Bennington

  Teenager, Party, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Rejection, Should, Left

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• Once again I've been invited to the program WET. I gathered my thoughts and experiences and had the best time, these girls are so smart and mature and could teach me a thing or two. Once again I came out feeling good, it was the best therapy session ever. Damn these girls are good!

  Judy Marte

  Girl, Smart, Two

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• Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Mean, Compassion

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• Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion.

  Mel Watt

  President, North Carolina, Citizens

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• A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

  Judith Martin

  Wedding, People, Persons

  Judith Martin (1999). “Miss Manners on Weddings”, Crown

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• In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Groups, Gathering, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.641, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

  Daryl Morey

  Philosophy, Dancer, Asking

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• The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.

  Nan Goldin

  Cameras, Care, Moments

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• When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

  Ann Coulter

  College, Years, Leader

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• Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

  Vance Havner

  Sheep, Lord, Disciple

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• I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  New York, Play, Rookies

  "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

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• Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

  Chanakya

  Mistake, People, Political

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• I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

  Vikas Swarup

  Believe, Doors, Festivals

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• Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're eating, which designer I'm wearing, who we've invited... Saif and I decided that we wanted to keep the purest part of our relationship sacred. We followed protocol by going out on to the terrace and waving at the media after officially registering the marriage, but they didn't need to know more than that.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Media, Years, People

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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• Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

  Mason Cooley

  Voice, Criticism

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• Turn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.

  Jimmy Dore

  Radio, Turns, Turn Off

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• The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

  Ward McAllister

  People, Elements, Debt

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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