Inviting Quotes
174 quotes by 161 authors
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It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you…
— Walpola Rahula
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I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the…
— Harriet Brooks
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . .…
— Hugh Nibley
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Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one…
— Roger Delano Hinkins
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If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his…
— Joyce Maynard
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My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers…
— Christopher Bond
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You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore…
— Todd Solondz
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To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him,…
— John Calvin
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To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a…
— Deborah Tannen
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When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.
— Alanis Morissette
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Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous
— Andy Stanley
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There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a…
— Deepika Padukone
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Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
— John F. Kennedy
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Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human…
— William Watson Purkey
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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.
— Buddy Wakefield
Who Wrote These Inviting Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 174 Inviting Quotes, led by these top contributors: