Top 100 Quotes About Invitations: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Invitations

#1. Life doesn't send out invitations. Don't wait. Take risks. Be unforgettable. Be happy and live.

#2. In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever

John Eldredge

#3. Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#4. Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

Albert Einstein

#5. Briefs need limitations and invitations

David Rockwell

#6. To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

William Arthur Ward

#7. It's so tedious," Montgomery sighed, "to have to wait for invitations and, I find, they often don't come when you most want them to. Much easier to simply disregard formal invitations altogether.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#8. It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

Jack Dorsey

#9. The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

Mason Cooley

#10. Invitations to travel are like dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.

David Nicholls

#12. I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

Rita Gelman

#13. It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

L. Ron Hubbard

#14. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

Rita Gelman

#15. Historically, women have pushed each other into, and supported each other within, intellectual and public realms to which men rarely extended invitations, let alone any promise of equality.

Rebecca Traister

#16. I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage ... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

M. Ward

#17. People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the meeting reminders.

Riikka Pulkkinen

#18. If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Archibald Alexander

#19. Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint.

Ethel Merman

#21. Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'
Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7

C.S. Lewis

#22. My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

Donald Antrim

#24. Drug and medical device companies offered invitations to free dinners around town nightly. And there were over five thousand three hundred salespeople from some twelve hundred companies registered in attendance here - more than one for every two surgeons. The

Atul Gawande

#25. I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

Stan Lee

#26. People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

Sydney J. Harris

#27. Property has ever been a fluid concept
just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie Antoinette's escritoire.

Anna Godbersen

#28. Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Dorothy Thompson

#29. I will personally extend invitations to the entire Rampion crew. We'll make a reunion out of it." "Even Iko?" "I'll find her a date." "Because there's a rule against androids coming to the ball, you know." "I think I know someone who can change that rule." Grinning,

Marissa Meyer

#30. And these invitations, these are already sent out?" Rich asked from the front row. "Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we've made it policy to only remind the students of Parents' Weekend after all the invitations are delivered,

Drew Hayes

#31. All of Christ's commands are invitations and all of His invitations are commands.

Andy Davis

#32. Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

Cheryl Richardson

#33. BY THE EARLY 1960S, GE was receiving more speaking invitations for me from around the country than I could handle. And, although I was still saying the same things that I'd said for six years during the Eisenhower administration, I was suddenly being called a right-wing extremist.

Ronald Reagan

#34. The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

Charles Stanley

#35. I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

Jennifer Lawrence

#36. It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest # dream , take the labels off your mind, and step boldly into your greatness.

Iyanla Vanzant

#38. Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#39. Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

Eliza Leslie

#40. I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J.M. Coetzee

#41. Mr. Franklin kept a horn book always in his pocket in which he minuted all his invitations to dinner, and Mr. Lee said it was the only thing in which he was punctual

Walter Isaacson

#42. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.

Meredith Duran

#43. I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

Frank Bruno

#44. Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

Dallin H. Oaks

#45. Suffragettes!" whispered Agatha as if communicating a great scandal. "I'm quite sure invitations to tea are being quietly withdrawn all over the room.

Helen Simonson

#46. I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Peter Capaldi

#47. All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

E. M. Forster

#48. When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.

Jason Fulford

#49. The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one.

Dillon Burroughs

#50. The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

Angela Carter

#51. I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

Gianni Versace

#52. You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

Erin McKean

#53. It's not just that,' she said, trying to explain in a way he would understand. 'My life - any lady's life - is made up of morning calls, and musicales, and balls. I would be thrown out of society. No one would receive me or send invitations. That's what it means to be ruined.

Eloisa James

#54. It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?"
"It's meant to be lavender."
"No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

David Nicholls

#55. Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Graham Cooke

#56. [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. am quite aware that I bat close to a thousand on invitations to damsels only because I don't issue one unless the circumstances strongly indicate that it will be accepted.

Rex Stout

#58. If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.

Robert Boyle

#59. For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Mohsin Hamid

#60. Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

Tim Chester

#61. It's one thing to call off an engagement or even a wedding once the invitations are out - it's hard, but it happens. But on the actual day? You're walking, sister. Get yourself down that aisle and do whatever you have to do afterward, you know?

Lauren Weisberger

#62. Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Kenneth Grahame

#63. Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

Oscar Wilde

#64. Technically it was FLOTUS's job to extend the invitations, but the idea that Mrs. Clinton would take responsibility for someone under her command? Laughable. I surely never saw it.

Gary J. Byrne

#65. Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at ... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.

Phil Stern

#66. I have accepted another one of life's dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel. My

Glennon Doyle Melton

#67. In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when
we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.

Margaret Sanger

#68. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

Meghan Markle

#69. I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.

George R R Martin

#70. If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

Carolyn Hax

#71. I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.

Norm MacDonald

#72. Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Paul Schrader

#73. I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

Alice B. Toklas

#74. I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.

Bill Shankly

#75. After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

#76. The Christian story proclaims that all the demands of Scripture are ultimately summons, calls, invitations - beckoning us to experience true, beautiful, and good humanness.

Wesley Hill

#77. Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

Donald Rumsfeld

#78. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Donald E. Westlake

#79. Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess.

Ellen Hart

#80. Enlargement will also be high on the agenda with potential invitations for accession being made at the summit

Anonymous

#81. I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Hope Solo

#82. To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.

Vint Cerf

#83. No matter what God does for us, no matter how many calls, opportunities, or invitations we are offered, we can always find something to complain about. We can always rationalize our way out of having to repent and change our ways.

The Daughters Of St. Paul

#84. In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Herta Muller

#85. It had never mattered to her very much, reputation. For one who was often described as odd and strange, having little in common with others her age or gender, reputation never seemed worth much. It did not buy her friends, or invitations, or respect. So

Sarah MacLean

#86. I genuinely believe that our awkwardness and awkward moments are invitations to know more deeply the grace of God. Awkwardness is an invitation to vulnerability, and vulnerability is where intimacy and connection are found.

Sammy Rhodes

#87. Return trips, to this day ... are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,

John Irving

#88. The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation.

Janell Carroll

#89. Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Carolyn Wells

#90. Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

Richard Peck

#91. A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Charles Simic

#92. What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Gangaji