Top 100 Quotes About Summon
#1. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Diana Wynne Jones
#2. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.
Pablo Neruda
#4. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?
Ian Weir
#5. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
Scott Lynch
#6. I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
Cindy Sherman
#8. He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One
Leonard Gardner
#9. When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.
Peter Heller
#10. Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
William Shakespeare
#11. And only when we choose to believe that we live in a world where challenges can be overcome, our behavior matters, and change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional
Shawn Achor
#12. What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?
Virginia Woolf
#13. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
Donna Lynn Hope
#14. Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out.
Alethea Black
#15. There would be a time to call the music. Time to summon the souls.
Victoria Schwab
#16. I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
Loren Eiseley
#17. I think you've forgotten that this place holds a lot more than just
betraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise the
dead! My brother, you have the power to do so
now get off of your butt
and use it!
Richard P. Denney
#18. We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.
Peyton Manning
#19. But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none.
Karen Marie Moning
#20. Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
Samuel Chase
#21. Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within.
Miya Yamanouchi
#22. Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.
Cassandra Clare
#23. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen
Mike Dooley
#24. A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
I hail the superhuman;
I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.
William Butler Yeats
#25. Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth
May unwind the winding path;
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
("Byzantium")
W.B.Yeats
#26. Magnus clapped his hands. "Everyone! Gather around. It's time for a meeting. I'm going to teach you how to summon a demon.
Cassandra Clare
#27. I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
Peter Weir
#28. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
#29. Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
Robert Browning
#30. As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
Susan Stewart
#31. No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
Elbert Hubbard
#32. In our resolve to build a better world ... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
James Earl Jones
#33. Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.
Gail Devers
#34. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
William Butler Yeats
#35. One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.
Allison Pearson
#36. Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.
Barack Obama
#37. Summon the strength of your capabilities - not just housed in the mind - but, empowered within the Soul.
Eleesha
#38. It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
Hart Crane
#39. I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P.L. Travers
#40. Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
Franz Kafka
#41. If you are going to become limitless, you must summon the explorer within you.
Lorii Myers
#42. He could cut a Trolloc in half with a gateway at three hundred paces, and summon fire from inside Dragonmount itself, and he still wanted to carry a sword. It was, she decided, a male thing.
Robert Jordan
#44. Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. Alex moved away, clearly crestfallen. Some other day, maybe as soon as tomorrow, she would feel regret, but not tonight. Right now, she couldn't summon the energy to care about the feelings of a wannabe knight in tinfoil armor.
Wilette Youkey
#46. How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
Don Winslow
#47. Tried praying for him ... but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.
Markus Zusak
#48. But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#49. He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion.
William Gaddis
#50. Jason tried to summon more lightning. Nothing happened. If he ever met his dad, he'd have to petition for an increased daily allowance of bolts.
Rick Riordan
#51. Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us - I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs - to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.
Scot McKnight
#52. How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
Derek Tangye
#53. The librarian had imagined he could summon a given book to perch on his hand just by shouting out its call number, but in actuality they were just too willful, and some were actively predatory. The
Lev Grossman
#54. Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.
Rick Riordan
#55. But, Jane, I summon you as my wife: it is you only I intend to marry.
Charlotte Bronte
#56. At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Anne McCaffrey
#57. Why not smile and preserve, why not let the light summon, why not spread the love, the love we all deserve
Ipsit Bibhudarshi
#58. He's going to summon up one of the Elder Klansmen.
Matt Ruff
#59. The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done
Horatius Bonar
#60. Guards! Summon the holy kitty litter! Mr. Scruffy demands poopsies!
Rich Burlew
#61. Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
Laozi
#63. The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
Anais Nin
#64. The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
Jacques Necker
#65. In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.
Erik Larson
#66. Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.
Richard Dooling
#67. We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.
Mark Twain
#68. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
#69. Just a title, or an author's name, would be enough to summon up happy images. Strange
Diane Duane
#70. Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
Edward Abbey
#71. Yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence ...
John Geddes
#72. Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
Barack Obama
#73. You know what must be done."
"No, I do not know what must be done. I do not routinely summon people from the grave and have them following me around!
Robin Bridges
#74. Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#75. He tried to summon faces to his mind. He had fleeting thoughts of his parents, of Lucky, the family he loved. But one face came clearest of all, the one person he'd fought for throughout the ages.
Parvati.
Sarwat Chadda
#76. A supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream
Alain De Botton
#77. If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.
Joyce Carol Oates
#78. They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When suddenly across the lune
A wind with fingers goes.
They perished in the seamless grass,
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repealless list
Can summon every face
Emily Dickinson
#79. Sometimes I wonder," Merlin declared, licking a bit of mustard off his upper lip, "where exactly does the food come from? Is there a fourth dimension where a magic hat goes to fetch it? Or does it simply summon turkeys and bread out of thin air? In which case, what is this sandwich really made of?
Soman Chainani
#80. Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
#81. I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.
Hillary Clinton
#82. You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it.
Diana Gabaldon
#83. Where do memories go once we've lost our ability to summon them? It
Anthony Doerr
#84. I caught Bast's arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
"Stay away from the water."
She frowned. "Carter, I'm a cat. I'm not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.
Rick Riordan
#85. Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
Katrina Kenison
#86. "Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.
Diana Wynne Jones
#87. And, you know, you never really summon all of your strength until you know that there's no way back, no way to go but onward.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#88. He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting.
Solar
Ian McEwan
#89. It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.
Yukio Mishima
#90. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.
George R R Martin
#91. In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.
Maia Wojciechowska
#92. Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and do something concrete. I firmly believe that a lot dynamic and revolutionary work flows from those who summon all of their personal energy and just go out and make something.
Andrew Neel
#93. For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time?
Ari Berk
#94. Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
#95. It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His
Steve Almond
#96. One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
#97. Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)
Patrick DeWitt
#98. You know how it is
you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?
Kate Griffin
#99. This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#100. If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.'
The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?'
'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.
John Marsden
