Invitation Quotes

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country. View quote
Gordon Brown
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. View quote
Camille Claudel
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. View quote
Umberto Eco
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. (Richard Steele)
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation. View quote
Libba Bray
But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness. View quote
Mary Oliver
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. View quote
Donna Rice
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder. View quote
Thomas Chalmers
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent - prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls. View quote
Stefan Zweig
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. View quote
Cary Grant
When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be). View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won. (Quentin Crisp)
Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness. View quote
Pierre Hadot
I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up. View quote
Meg Cabot
But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body. View quote
Bernhard Schlink
Plans are invitation to disappointment. View quote
Derek Landy