#invites

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#drink #impunity #invites #them #who

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#america #certain #dignitaries #gone #government

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#complaint #happiness #invites #who

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#boss #dad #free #games #go

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. ↗

— David Byrne

#behavior #done #encourages #invites #kind

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

He who pardons easily invites offense. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#invites #offense #pardons #who

I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.' ↗

— Courteney Cox

#go #hang #hey #house #i

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#anarchy #become #becomes #breeds #contempt