Evoking Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
— Margaret Atwood
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a…
— Watchman Nee
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Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry…
— Bryan Beller
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If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention…
— Esther Hicks
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It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of…
— Antonio Machado
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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
— C.S. Lewis
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The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies…
— M.C. Escher
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The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.…
— Robert K. Merton
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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace:…
— David Bentley Hart
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova…
— Keith Donohue
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Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a…
— Abraham Zaleznik
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Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
— Henri Nouwen
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our…
— Michael Polanyi
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength,…
— Robert Genn
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What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate…
— George Scialabba
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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked…
— Marc Jacobs
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
Who Wrote These Evoking Quotes
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