Top 100 Invitation Quotes
#1. If I made a habit of waiting for an invitation, I'd never get to go anywhere. - Puck
Julie Kagawa
#2. The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.
Henry B. Eyring
#3. life is a big party Ensure that You have an invitation
Jan Jansen
#4. Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
#6. The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being.
Alberto Villoldo
#7. They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)
Stephen Dobyns
#8. When people are breaking the law, they don't get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house ... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.
Mike Huckabee
#9. Come with me."
"Let me think on that." I tap a finger against my bottom lip as if I'm really contemplating his crappily delivered invitation. His eyes drop to watch the movement.
"Okay. I've decided. No."
- Ella Harper
Erin Watt
#10. The challenges we face in life are not meant to be some sort of punishment; rather, they are an invitation to change - and an opportunity to create something even better than before.
Sam Cawthorn
#11. Do you want to fuck off, or do you need a written invitation?
Santino Hassell
#12. At the same time, it seemed certain to me that someday I would really want to hear his voice and wouldn't be able to, and I would think back to the time that he had invited me to call him, and it would seem as incomprehensible as an invitation to speak to the dead.
Elif Batuman
#13. See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.
Katharine Jefferts Schori
#14. If you don't send me away from Stony Cross by tomorrow morning, I'll take it as a personal invitation to your bed.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.
Phoebe Damrosch
#16. I have accepted another one of life's dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel. My
Glennon Doyle Melton
#17. A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
David Whyte
#18. The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
Ala Bashir
#19. According to the prevailing extroversion assumption, inviting you is a nice gesture, and pressuring you is a compliment - an indication that you are wanted. How many times have you equivocated on or even declined an invitation, only to be asked again - and again?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#21. Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
Bruce Feiler
#22. I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him an invitation to adventure. He very softly kissed her lobe.
Richard Flanagan
#23. Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation.
A part of his mind recommended he burn it.
Another part suggested he urinate on it.
Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat.
Loretta Chase
#24. I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!
Pink
#25. I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.
Joan Rivers
#26. Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.
John Updike
#27. Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.
Peter Sagal
#29. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
David Whyte
#30. Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me.
Max Lucado
#31. We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head.
Mark Twain
#32. Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
#33. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
Alice Sebold
#35. The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach,
Rob Bell
#36. Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast.
Robert Rowland Smith
#37. It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'
Curtis Stone
#38. One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win.
Herschel Walker
#39. But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join ... he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning. Pg 55
Mark Helprin
#40. I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower."
He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#41. I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
Dawn French
#42. Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.
Karen Marie Moning
#43. I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
James Van Der Beek
#44. He followed her down the corridor. "Don't walk away from me. I'd like some answers here. Whose invitation did I just accept, and what does that slimy prig want of you? And why do I come in third in your affections behind the slimy prig and a squashed beetle?"
-Logan
Tessa Dare
#45. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
Bill Drayton
#46. Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.
Sunshine O'Donnell
#47. You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?
David Foster Wallace
#48. POETS Day, remember! Fox smiled to himself: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. It was all the invitation he needed.
Ian Rankin
#49. When God says that our faith is the substance of what we hope for, what we are expecting, He's giving us an open invitation with no limits and no boundaries.
Larry Huch
#50. I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.
Cary Grant
#51. I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
#52. Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.
Marcel Proust
#53. I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets."
"That the only thing you're in love with?"
"Nope. Your mattress, too."
Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#54. There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.
Marcel Proust
#55. God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.
Anais Nin
#58. Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ's pursuit of us. Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
David Platt
#59. All things are possible through invitation and love.
Bryant McGill
#60. I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
Ellie Goulding
#61. I don't like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. It's an invitation to abuse of power, no matter how noble the intentions.
Stieg Larsson
#62. I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood ... .I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth - messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy - and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.
David A. Bednar
#63. When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
Arthur Phillips
#64. Did people come here to commit suicide? They were bound to. Cliffs, bridges, tall buildings, they were like an invitation. Just stand there, looking down, was to create an optical illusion of the ground rushing up to meet you.
Martyn Bedford
#65. What is this?"
"It's a wedding invitation," Julie said.
"I didn't order any."
Julie grinned at me. "Roman."
Ugh. That's right. I waved the envelope at her. "It has flowers on it."
"Did you want gore, swords, and severed heads?" she asked.
Ilona Andrews
#66. If you're not too busy this evening, why don't you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers' row and we'll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o'clock." "Yes, sir." "That's not an order, that's an invitation. If you really are slowing down,
Robert A. Heinlein
#67. An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.
Leatrice Eiseman
#68. A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
#70. I don't know if that was an invitation, but I want to send her my RSVP right this second.
Colleen Hoover
#71. Your government has problems ... my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#72. Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.
Alexander MacLaren
#73. You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
Jack Kornfield
#75. A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him.
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Rex Stout
#76. What will i do without it ? ill die that's what. ill just....die!"
"go on then. i dare you" I said. Jess went on raving, completely ignoring my invitation.
Dave Hackett
#77. I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.
Laurie Beth Jones
#78. I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel
#79. I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.
Jeff Landry
#80. The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.
Jo Bonner
#81. Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#82. Twilight is an insistent and infinite invitation to the wise to contemplate in peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. But I like sex."
"Good. Have it with me." His smile was an erotic invitation.
Sylvia Day
#84. I don't think it's stalking if I get an invitation, but yes, I'd love to accompany you to the store."
"I don't know if I'm ready for this huge jump in status," I tease. "From stalker to chaperone in a day? You'll think I'm easy.
Mia Sheridan
#85. There is an invitation beyond the wall of knowledge, which is not to some regressive state before the mind can operate, but a transcendent state that's beyond where the mind can go. That's what spirituality is. It's going where the mind cannot go.
Adyashanti
#86. Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.
Robert Holden
#87. To be conscious and enlightened, Spirit must fill our bodies. Trance Dancing is an invitation to Spirit to embody us. When Spirit accepts, we dance from the inside out.
Frank Natale
#88. A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.
Tracy K. Smith
#89. Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?
Ellen DeGeneres
#90. Pope, who took breakfast with me, His Holiness said he had accepted JAMES GORDON BENNETT'S invitation to come to Washington Heights
Various
#91. The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities.
Nicholas Carr
#92. Since that era the question "Do you have any food restrictions?" has become a part of the etiquette of a dinner invitation, and participants at conference dinners can now tick a box that will replace a plate of rubber chicken with a plate of sodden eggplant.
Steven Pinker
#93. Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.
Cheryl Richardson
#94. You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
Dora Russell
#95. Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#96. If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
Barbara Mertz
#97. Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.
Esther Hicks
#98. Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life.
Sarah Bessey
#99. Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch.
Terry Pratchett
#100. There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
Bryant McGill
