To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration. — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
