Invoking Quotes

30 quotes by 24 authors

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you… — Joan Didion
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order… — Wernher von Braun
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God… — Richard Dawkins
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
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
Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns… — Ibn Ata Allah
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson
It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about… — Chris Hayes
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. — Edward Abbey
To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin… — Richard Dawkins
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite… — Edwin Meese
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights. — Ibn Ata Allah
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. — Shirin Ebadi
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting… — Bodhidharma
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the… — Margaret Mead
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a… — John Ruskin

Who Wrote These Invoking Quotes

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