Invoke Quotes - Page 6

• I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

  Anne Waldman

  Native American, Weather, Verbs

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

  John Vianney

  Religious, Blessed, Helping

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• Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Religious, Faithful, Return

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• 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 of the Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Machines, Designer

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

  Bobby Schilling

  War, Iraq, President

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• An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

  Marya Mannes

  Making Money, Neighbor

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Clouds, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Thieves, Care, May

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• How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

  John Armstrong

  Dream, Sleep, Deities

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• While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Magic

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• Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

  Lauren Mackler

  Thinking, Optimism, Addiction

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• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Change, Type, Inevitable

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2016

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• Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.

  Jack Goldstein

  Memories, Loss, Encounters

  Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell (2012). “101 Amazing Slenderman Facts”, p.9, Andrews UK Limited

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• Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Want

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• We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

  Plotinus

  Eye, Use, Birthright

  Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien (1964). “The Essential Plotinus”, p.42, Hackett Publishing

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• By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Men, Profound, Mountain

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Mountains Of The Mind”, p.275, Granta

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• I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Vision, Holding On

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• There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

  Gregory Bateson

  Strong, Believe, Energy

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• Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

  James Bovard

  Party, Rights, Air

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Giving

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• As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Names, Mind

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• A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people who do not understand mathematics? If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds...how does it come about that so many persons are here refractory?

  Henri Poincare

  People, Mind, Ontology

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• Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.

  John Assaraf

  Motivational, Jobs, Thinking

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• The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Wrath, Speak

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.82

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