Invited Quotes - Page 20

• My friend devotes himself to his life, whenever he can find the spare time. His motto is: 'Don't just sit there: live!' So he's too busy to stand, to walk, to do anything, except to live. He even refused to kiss a girl, when invited, on the grounds that it was time again to be living. Schedules are sacred to him.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Life, Girl, Kissing

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• As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Historical, President

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• The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

  Jean Marzollo

  Pregnancy, Men, Wife

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• I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

  James Boswell

  Death, Character, Funeral

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Peace, War

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• I am a black man
  Who was born café con leche
  I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited.
  And I got kicked out. They threw me out.
  When I went back to have fun with the black girls
  All together they said 'Maelo, go back to your white girls'
  And they kicked me out. They threw me out.

  Ismael Rivera

  Girl, Fun, Party

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• We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Two, Heaven, Doe

  Reinhard Bonnke (2017). “Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?”, p.104, CFAN Publications

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• I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.

  George Andrew Olah

  Groups, Research, Able

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• The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.

  Sonia Choquette

  Journey, Frustration, Self

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• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, World

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• You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

  Tom Robbins

  White, House, Genius

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.70, Bantam

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• Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

  Larry Wall

  Rooms, Privacy, Infatuation

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• Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Heaven, Trials, Bleeding

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• I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Nice, Light, Fans

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• Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

  Pete Hegseth

  War, Weakness, Flip

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• Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

  David LaMotte

  Change, Creativity, New Day

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• He who invites us to follow will always be out in front of us with His Spirit and influence setting the pace. He has charted and marked the course, opened the gates, and shown the way. He has invited us to come unto Him, and the best time to enjoy His companionship is straightway. We can best get on the course and stay on the course by doing as Jesus did-make a total commitment to do the will of His Father.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Time, Jesus, Father

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

  Irwin Shaw

  Men, White, House

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• The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

  Watchman Nee

  Hands, Play, Groups

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics

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• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Learning, Sacrifice

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

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• Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Anxiety, Competition, Doe

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• I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield law. It's all in the details. Some of the shield laws that were floating around sounded good, but when you looked at them, exceptions or exclusions or broadness in the language really invited some problems.

  Ted Gup

  Law, Ideas, Details

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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