Welcome Quotes - Page 31

• All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

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• Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

  Samuel Johnson

  Decision, Desire, Debt

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.294

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• Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Needs

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• It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

  Dan Simmons

  Understanding, Lasts, Mystery

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.32, Spectra

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• ...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

  Bob Woodward

  Military, Team, Division

  Bob Woodward (2011). “Obama's Wars”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

  Bill Hybels

  Hurt, Real, Passion

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• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Ties, Shoes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.

  Pope Francis

  Mistake, Sheep, Lost

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• Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mean, Ideas, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, May, Consistent

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• I comfortably and easily release the old and and welcome the new in my life. I am safe.

  Louise Hay

  Safe, Release

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 06, 2012

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• Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Backgrounds, Persons

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• Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.

  Keith Floyd

  Mcdonalds, Chef, Life Is

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• Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.

  Taylor Swift

  Travel, New York, Light

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Travel, Eye, Sight

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• I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Addiction

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• To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

  Peyton Manning

  Fantasy, Owners, You Re Welcome

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• I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

  David Bromstad

  Home, Thinking, Who We Are

  "David Bromstad, Designer And HGTV Star, Talks 2013 Trends And Big Decor Mistakes". Interview with Rain Embuscado, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2013.

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• We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• Welcome to science. You’re gonna like it here.

  Phil Plait

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• Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.

  Kathleen Flinn

  Magic, Puff, Care

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• The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Son, Compassion

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