Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.” — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood….I exhort you to sweep the earth with… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends,… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman,… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest # dream , take the labels… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Turn down enough invitations and eventually even the most determined will stop asking. It would take a Herculean effort now to weave… — Laura Marshall Copy Share Image
