To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers? — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer. — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very… — Peggy Lipton Copy Share Image
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image