Invitational Speech Quotes

#1. Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

William Lane Craig

#2. The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Ian McEwan

#3. Life is like a chess. The most important is being a player not a figure. It doesn't matter you will win or lose.

Me

#4. The general market wants what I do.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. So long as they were not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even became aware that they are oppressed.

George Orwell

#6. If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#7. The self cannot be self without other selves.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

Robert Bridges

#10. I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.

Leonard Susskind

#11. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Barack Obama

#12. You can't lie to kids about drugs. They know about drugs. You can't say they're just all bad. They know life is a little more complicated. I have never done heroin. I would never recommend heroin, but it hasn't hurt my record collection.

Bill Maher

#13. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.

Marcus J. Borg

#14. Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

Kobe Bryant

#15. If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

Ze Frank

#16. The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

Jim Harrison