Uninvited Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
-
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
— Howard Thurman
-
Uninvited criticism is insult.
— John L'Heureux
-
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,…
— Maile Meloy
-
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come…
— Gary Allan
-
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
— Kin Hubbard
-
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
— Ramakrishna
-
Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and…
— Mike Yaconelli
-
Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a…
— Joanne Harris
-
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest…
— E L Konigsburg
-
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a…
— Steve Toltz
-
Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
— Aesop
-
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?"…
— Abraham Verghese
-
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
— Stephen King
-
And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a…
— Daniel Handler
-
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and…
— Eleanor Catton
-
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
-
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
-
His jaw was swollen. A thick red bruise quickly began forming, tracing the outline of an unfamiliar fist and uninvited rings. His tooth had bitten…
— Jacob
-
I heard that you're settled down That you found a girl and you're married now. I heard that your dreams came true. Guess she gave…
— Jessica
Who Wrote These Uninvited Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 31 Uninvited Quotes, led by these top contributors: