For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet… — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who entered the Courtyard without an invitation were just plain crazy! Wolves were big and scary and so fluffy, how could… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No."… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful… He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I… — John Lone Copy Share Image
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image