Quotes About Being Summoned

#1. Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

Plutarch

#2. Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

Laozi

#4. It was not accustomed to being summoned.

Laura Oliva

#5. The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

Pope John Paul II

#6. The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Winston Churchill

#7. Necessity creates everything in my life.

Christian Louboutin

#8. In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#9. I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

Philip Pullman

#10. Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision ...

Newell Dwight Hillis

#11. I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

Terry Wogan

#12. I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

Franz Kafka

#13. The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Matt LeBlanc

#14. I hope that the members of TVXQ would always continue. Right now, our friendship is already very strong. But I hope that in the future, it will definitely grow even stronger!

Yunho

#15. You have to develop your whole game to completion.

Isaiah Thomas

#16. So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

Steve Rubel

#17. Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

#18. New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is
murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit.

Bill Maher

#19. Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.

Marie Rutkoski

#20. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress.

Janet Yellen