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source: "My Credo". Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

topic: Fate, Men, Knowing, Indebtedness, Uninvited

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Friendless, Uninvited

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 find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

- Mike Yaconelli

topic: Jesus, Party, Doors, Strange Phenomena, Uninvited

I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

- Sophia Bush

topic: People, Rude, Attention, Uninvited

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 been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

- Eleanor Catton

source: Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

topic: Self, Perspective, Weight, Uninvited

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

- Richard Russo

topic: Past, Focus, Odd, Inspection, Uninvited

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

topic: Dwarves, Explanation, Halls, Dwarfs, Uninvited

One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited ...

- Mary Kingsley

source: Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

topic: Running, Smell, Giving, Uninvited

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

- Steve Toltz

source: Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

topic: Memories, Jehovah, Looks, Uninvited

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

- Daniel Handler

source: Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.16, Egmont UK

topic: Heart, Desire, Turns, Perfect Things, Uninvited

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, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

- Maile Meloy

topic: Party, Thinking, Giving, Rambling, Delightful Things

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 here uninvited.

- Gary Allan

topic: Doors, Fans, Polite, Uninvited, Uninvited Guests

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

- Aesop

source: Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106

topic: Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests, Uninvited

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?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Zero, Two, Numbers, Shiva, Uninvited

We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

- Shauna Niequist

topic: Party, Love You, Love Is, Granola, Cocktail Parties

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

- Nan Fairbrother

source: Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

topic: Understanding, Should, Offers, Uninvited

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

- Katherine Anne Porter

source: Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.179, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Trouble, Fury, Knows, Uninvited

When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

- Lesley Kagen

topic: Memories, Guests, Pops, Uninvited, Uninvited Guests

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Doors, House, Devil, Uninvited

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 million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

- Joanne Harris

topic: Summer, Laughter, Memories, Rant, Chuckles

Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.

- Mike Yaconelli

source: Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.35, Harper Collins

topic: Uninvited

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.48, Soho Press

topic: Sleep, Doors, Sneak In, Uninvited

In fact, one of the funny stories from that set [of Hail, Caesar!] is we were shooting my scene, and around lunchtime, Terrence Malick shows up on set. He was uninvited and no one knew who he was. But I knew, just looking at him. I was like, "Holy moley, that's Terrence Malick!" So I went and told the PA, "Hey, Terrence Malick is here, and I think he wants to see the Coen brothers. He wants to talk to Joel and Ethan." He just showed up unannounced, uninvited, and I guess they spent their lunch hour with him.

- David Krumholtz

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Brother, Thinking, Lunch, Funny Story, Lunchtime

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to. It's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Doors, Trying, Guests, Uninvited, Uninvited Guests

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