Summon Quotes

145 quotes by 125 authors

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,… — Robert Barron
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker
I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for… — Edward Villella
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am… — Pablo Neruda
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. — Edna O'Brien
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that… — Mitch Daniels
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to… — Peter Weir
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips,… — Rhonda Byrne
I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. — Loren Eiseley
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy. — Suze Orman
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel… — Howard Schultz
Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by… — Laozi
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They… — Dane Rudhyar
I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not… — Albert Payson Terhune
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate… — William Shakespeare
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not — Maurice Maeterlinck

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