Summoned Quotes
72 quotes by 67 authors
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to…
— Henry Adams
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
— Ambrose
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
— Franklin Pierce
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The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.
— Terry Rossio
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
— George Washington
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of…
— Stevie Nicks
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God…
— Andre Breton
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
— Ray Bradbury
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I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of…
— Jules Ladoumegue
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In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or…
— David Richo
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As…
— Helen Keller
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The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
— Dan Simmons
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
— William Gurnall
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Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for…
— Dan Coats
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I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware…
— James A. Michener
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But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and…
— Philipp Melanchthon
Who Wrote These Summoned Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 72 Summoned Quotes, led by these top contributors: