Quotes About Invoked

#1. Alien to him, gripped him by the balls, freezing his insides. He rubbed at his chest in an effort to alleviate the discomfort and closed his eyes, trying to rid himself of the images the threat had invoked.

Maya Banks

#2. Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!

Ibn Ata Allah

#3. The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Wilfrid Laurier

#4. The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

Norbert Wiener

#5. From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Linda Chavez

#6. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.

Tom Robbins

#7. The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

Paul Di Filippo

#9. Then at once "human nature" is again invoked to prove the necessity of change, for "human nature" has been thwarted or insulted by the dominant system. "Man" can no longer be defined as what suits the dominant system, when the dominant system apparently does not suit men. I

Paul Goodman

#10. I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#11. When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Kelley Armstrong

#12. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Felix Frankfurter

#13. ..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...

Michel Leiris

#14. Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Bertrand Russell

#15. As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Vandana Shiva

#16. The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ...

Hugo Black

#17. It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

Rachel Held Evans

#18. The ceremony, likely aided by narcotics and hallucinogens, required Hubbard to channel the female deity of Babalon as Parsons performed the "invocation of wand with material basis on talisman" - in other words, masturbating on a piece of parchment. He typically invoked twice a night.

Lawrence Wright

#19. The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

Douglas Preston

#20. Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Hilaire Belloc

#22. A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Joshua Bloch

#23. Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.
- Page 184

Alexandre Dumas

#24. There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#25. Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

Derek Luke

#26. [Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Philip Yancey

#27. You invoked a campus-wide hands-off law? Are you kidding me?" I'm not at all remorseful as I meet her eyes. "Of course I did." "Oh my God. You are unbelievable." She shakes her head in disbelief

Elle Kennedy

#28. The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for as long as the invoker is in the station of invoking with the tongue or with the heart.

Ibn Ata Allah

#29. Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

Edmund White

#30. The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.

Patrick Mendis

#31. The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.

Andrew Harvey

#32. God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#33. A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William James

#34. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

Nina Power

#35. The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.

Rick Perlstein

#36. There is much talk nowadays of blood and soil [Blut und Boden] as frequently invoked powers. Literati, whom one comes across even today, have already seized hold of them. Blood and soil are certainly powerful and necessary, but they are not a sufficient condition for the Dasein of a people.

Martin Heidegger

#37. When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.

John O'Donohue

#38. We have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#39. God is invoked ... and He is invoked against the God of the spirit, of intelligence and love - excluding and hating this God. What an extraordinary spiritual phenomenon this is: people believe in God and yet do not know God. The idea of God is affirmed and at the same time disfigured and perverted.

John Howard Griffin

#40. I only invoked what you already knew.

Paulo Coelho

#41. I invoked you, bribing Fate to produce you.
Were you conjuring me? I had no idea
How I was becoming necessary,
Or what emergency surgery Fate would make
Of my casual self-service.

Ted Hughes

#42. Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)

Neena Verma

#43. An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

William James

#44. Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

Ralph Nader

#45. The government to you is what God is to agnostics
only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Amitav Ghosh

#46. How'd you come up with cemetery?" Julian asked Nick.
"Call it divine inspiration."
"Yeah, I'm betting God was invoked a lot last night," JD said under his breath.
"Shhh," Kelly begged.

Abigail Roux

#47. I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing
his sense of personal dignity.

Arthur Miller

#48. Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Frank Herbert

#49. while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13

Randall Styers

#50. Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

John Allen Paulos

#51. The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Lajos Kossuth

#52. If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

Robert H. Jackson

#53. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Michael Crichton

#54. Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be, he invoked.

Karen Essex

#55. Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...

Ariana Franklin

#56. The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Richard Flanagan

#57. No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

J.V. Hart

#58. People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on about this subject. The more I hear it, the more it rankles, frankly.

Ron Currie Jr.

#59. Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

Mark Hart

#60. Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

Desiderius Erasmus