#invitation

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#invitation #humor

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. ↗

— Charles Bent

#christ #come #converse #equally #every

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#back #found #front #head #himself

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. ↗

— Louis A. Johnson

#any #autonomous #conduct #defense #disaster

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something. ↗

— John Lone

#felt #i #important #invitation #look

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

#college #could #entertainment #him #invitation

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#closer #compensation #filling-the-void #god #horrific

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. ↗

— Scott Adams

#hallucination #i #invitation #join #respectfully

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#imaginative #invitation #magic #many #plays

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. ↗

— William Feather

#court #invitation #invokes #more #police