Love is an engraved invitation to grief.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want th...
ROSIE O'DONNELL A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
ISABEL ALLENDE Sadness is an invitation to God.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I received an invitation and I came down here. I love Chinese food.
CHANCELLOR DANIEL LITTLE The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.
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ROSIE O'DONNELL When you go home
Tell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow,
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PATRICK O'DONNELL — Faites entrer le voyou en costard-cravate, s'il vous plaît.
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HENRY B. EYRING Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.
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DENISE MINA To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' ...
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g...
PHILIP K. DICK I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engr...
CHRISTINE LAVIN Donnell is one of those players gaining confidence and improving each time out.
BRAD FRANCIS Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
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KEVIN COSTNER I love the beach, and I love sunshine.
MEGAN FOX Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.
SHANNON L. ALDER A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine.
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Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Every love story is a potential grief story.
JULIAN BARNES Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
ARTHUR PHILLIPS Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE There's still an open invitation to anyone who wants to come.
DAVE WAKELING The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
JULES RENARD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
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KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Do you need an invitation to live? You have one, it is called your birth certificate!
JOSHUA ESTRIN Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is s...
W. SCOTT LINEBERRY Never refuse an invitation or a good offer.
VIKRANT PARSAI Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ O...
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invitation to dinner without giving ...
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ANNE GRANT Real happiness is when you bathe your soul in the sunshine of Divine love
MEGHNA CHOUDHURY (HER GRACE MATHURA VASI DEVI DASI) Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understand...
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RACHAEL RAY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It's strictly voluntary ... The letters will be an invitation.
DEAN SAITO Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation
RUSH LIMBAUGH Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
JONATHAN HAIDT LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of trium...
UNARINE RAMARU O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we ...
TOBA BETA Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
JULES RENARD One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've go...
HERSCHEL WALKER The only other home besides mine, I can enter without an invitation, is my parents.”
RID AKBAY And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -
But the pain of grief
Is only a s...
HILARY STANTON ZUNIN Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
ORSON SCOTT CARD O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B'...
BOOBOO STEWART I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON But such an invitation and such a stand leads to irritations with the EU.
HEINZ KRAMER An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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-Pablo Neruda
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TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ...
RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo...
P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ...
PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me.
KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis...
PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ...
JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio...
MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL