Invoked Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History… — Felix Frankfurter
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked — Ralph Nader
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true,… — Derek Luke
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly… — Rachel Held Evans
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier
The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for… — Ibn Ata Allah
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart;… — Ibn Ata Allah
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked. — Norbert Wiener
The Monsterâ€™s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked. — Douglas Preston
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time.… — Edward S. Herman
When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time. — John O'Donohue
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my… — Thomas Francis Meagher
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. — Linda Chavez
...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that… — Donald Knuth
Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken… — Keith Olbermann
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never… — Richard Flanagan
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has… — Subcomandante Marcos

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