Top 100 Quotes About Summon
#1. The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
Jeff Greenfield
#2. Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?
Dana Gould
#3. Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#4. Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.
Susanna Clarke
#5. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper
Tanya Huff
#6. As the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with sudden, drenching showers before the sun returns, I know that both pain and joy are needed for life to grow.
Teri Terry
#7. There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.
Dana Gioia
#9. You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
Frederick Lenz
#10. How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!
Tibullus
#11. wars can be traced to a scuffle between a man and a boy, both of whom summon aid to their respective sides.
Norman Davies
#12. If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.
Walter E. Williams
#13. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ...
William Shakespeare
#14. Because I'd like to think I can still summon the total carpe diem, reckless abandon, bulletproof sense of invincibility that I once had wearing that shirt.
Emily Spivack
#15. The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#16. I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.
Leonard Cohen
#17. Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form! (Julian)
Gee, I can't imagine why he wouldn't respond to that. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. Oh, I'd kill him - once I figured out how to summon my demon before he could pin her down again. He was so going on my revenge list.
Pippa DaCosta
#19. He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can feel my metacarpals shattering. Julian jumps to summon our waitress again, mostly to avoid shaking hands with this Goliath. "And a pitcher of mimosas, as soon as humanly possible.
Kristopher Jansma
#20. That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
Masashi Kishimoto
#21. When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.
Leonard Cohen
#22. I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
Junot Diaz
#23. Loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
Charles Stross
#24. They stare at me like I've lost my mind and I try to mentally summon my lips to form words, but they are bound together by the painful memories crushing my heart.
Jessica Sorensen
#25. We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.
Harold S. Kushner
#26. A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate.
She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?
Ron Suskind
#27. His hand trembled as he tried to summon the strength to make himself reach up and pull the spike free from his
Brandon Sanderson
#28. It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.
Dakota Johnson
#29. Because adults forgot how porous that border was, the ease with which you could summon monsters and find treasure in any basement. Besides, adults talked to themselves. Was that any more rational?
Mark Haddon
#30. I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.
Tea Obreht
#31. Lost things. They claw through the membranes, attempting to summon our attention through an indecipherable mayday. Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen.
Patti Smith
#32. A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Suze Orman
#33. In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.
Penelope Lively
#34. One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs
#35. Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien
#36. Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.
Kim Harrison
#37. /summon EntityHorse~~~{Type:3, Tame:1} And
Mine Craft
#38. Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#40. The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#42. I would be a fully-paid-up member of the 'I Hate Paperwork Club' if I could summon the enthusiasm to fill in the application form.
John Dolan
#43. Iseult knew what she had to do. She knew what Safi would do in this position. What Habim or Mathew or her mother or anyone with a backbone would do. So why was she finding it so hard to summon any words?
Susan Dennard
#44. If I could, I would summon the sun for you."
Her step faltered and she looked slowly over to him with a smile full of unexpected joy. "Thank you, but I don't need the sun today."
"And why is that?"
"You're here," she said simply, as if that were answer enough.
Evangeline Collins
#45. Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.
Rhonda Byrne
#46. I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do - like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.
Rick Riordan
#47. So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.
Barack Obama
#48. A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. We can ... start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#50. Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
Marilyn Ferguson
#51. But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
Annie Proulx
#52. You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.
Pliny The Younger
#53. The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
Rachel Field
#54. Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.
Alexandra Katehakis
#55. All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.
Theodore Roethke
#56. Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.
F.B. Meyer
#57. One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.
Edna Ferber
#58. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others
Aron Ralston
#60. Good and Bad are like God and Devil. It's up to you, who do you want to summon.
Mohith Agadi
#61. The saliva of each species is different, and trees can match the saliva to the insect. Indeed, the match can be so precise that trees can release pheromones that summon specific beneficial predators.
Peter Wohlleben
#62. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Toni Morrison
#63. If you summon your courage to challenge something, you'll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, "If only I'd had a little more courage." Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
Daisaku Ikeda
#64. If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#65. God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
Pope Benedict XVI
#66. But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.
Barbara Kingsolver
#67. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.
William Shakespeare
#68. Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.
Terrence E. Deal
#69. Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
Anita Diamant
#70. Stop it. This is serious! (Selena)
Serious? Please. I'm standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. So now I get the scepter? Jason asked.
Cupid laughed. Unfortunately, you could not wield it. Only a child of the Underworld can summon the dead legions. And only an officer of Rome can lead them.
Rick Riordan
#72. I can't summon anymore gas! Leo warned. The His faced turned red. 'Wow, that came out wrong. I mean the burning kind.
Rick Riordan
#74. With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
Marianne Williamson
#75. Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.
Ruth Padel
#76. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.
Robert Barron
#77. We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#78. Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity.
Kenzaburo Oe
#79. I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me.
Dean Koontz
#80. Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals.
Eleesha
#81. I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it
Oprah Winfrey
#82. There was probably a spell, but Lila didn't know it, and she was too tired to summon air or wood or anything else, so instead she simply summoned the last of her strength and kicked the door in.
V.E Schwab
#83. Enough to summon Tommy down to assist. His repertoire of life skills, augmented by the time he spent in Africa, no doubt includes the function of generators. But I'd better wait at least until
J. Mark Bertrand
#84. Any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger. But to understand the risk, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then to summon the strength to face them down - that in my opinion is the most commendable form of valour
Robert Harris
#85. The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I'd called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse
Pippa DaCosta
#86. So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself." It's true that when you summon the
Oprah Winfrey
#87. Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#88. What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.
Swami Vivekananda
#89. Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
Marcel Proust
#90. We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
John Hoeven
#91. 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 and intellectual resources to make that change happen.
Shawn Achor
#92. It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#93. You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward.
Priscilla Cummings
#94. Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.
Mark Steyn
#95. If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
Philippa Gregory
#96. People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
Jon Krakauer
#98. The stone will melt in tears,
because I can't remain closed to you forever.
I can't escape without being conquered.
From the blue sky an eye will gaze down,
to summon me in silence.
I will receive death utterly at your feet.
Rabindranath Tagore
#99. Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.
Rob Brezsny
#100. Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
Richard Brookhiser
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