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“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.”

Whole Might Used Environment Who You Are Weather Native Native American Verbs Invoke

Author:Anne Waldman

“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.”

Kind Real Country Term Vision Land Findings Immigrants Literal Migration Invoke Promised Land Diaspora

Author:Anne Waldman

“In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.”

Thinking World Years Kind Reality Culture Courses Language Twenties Jazz Borders Invoke

Author:Anne Waldman

“We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.”

Anxiety Adore Invoke Appease

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.”

Needs Ideas Universe Existence Aim Arguing Supreme Manifestation Intervention Invoke Supreme Being

Author:Peter Atkins

“If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?”

Ifs Should Values Prove Argument Logic Logical Invoke Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.”

Night Passion Term Quality Shapes Worship Transformation Sake Speed Landscape Expenses Irrational Novelty Unnatural Invoke

Author:Robert Stone

“I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.”

People Ifs Years May Stills Would Be Care Term Expected Golden Classic Invoke

Author:David Kirschner

“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.”

People Needs Feels Grows Class Principles Teacher Students Equal Comfortable Uncomfortable Paradox Good Teacher Invoke

Author:Erica Brown

“In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.”

Knows Men Heart Moving Song Force Praise Zeal Ardent Invoke Praise God Vehement

Author:John Calvin

“If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.”

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Book:Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

Source: Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

“Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.”

Self Law Lines Company Argument Treats Separation Tricks Usual Compelling Evident Arbitrary Laws Of Nature Dividing Invoke Continuum

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.”

Memories Discussion Invoke

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.”

Ifs Giving Class Technology Objects Managers Inability Invoke Trajectory Inanimate Objects

Book:The Unconscious Civilization

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“Wholeness invokes balance.”

Balance Wholeness Invoke

Author:M. J. Ryan

“Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.”

Desire Names Given Saws Grace Goodness Eternal Intellectual Gains Salvation Saint Humble Ignorant Virtuous Almighty Almighty God Invoke Intellectual Life

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.”

Ideas Aids No Idea Providence Nails Invoke

Author:Brander Matthews

“No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.”

Mother Forever Grace Perseverance Devotion Invoke

Author:John Eudes

“O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.”

Heart Names Love You Objects Honor Holy Please Pure Blessed Mary Invoke Petitions Pure Heart

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.”

Important Stories Shows Feelings Growing Up Growing Fans Tone Short Story Hollow Evoke Sleepy Invoke

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.”

Night Ought Angel Faithful Guardian Day And Night Invoke Guardian Angel Faithful Friends

Author:John Vianney

“If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large.”

Ifs World Persons Two Offers Invoke

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.”

Favors Almighty Gracious Emancipation Almighty God Invoke Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.”

Real Seems Levels Theory Diversity Raises Tolerance Real Life Rising Our Society Discomfort Invoke

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.”

World Believe Hard Light Sound Perception Models Patterns Perceive Invoke Hard To Believe Fabrication Perception Of The World

Author:Jeff Hawkins

“We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.”

Happens Spiritual Situation Taught Materials Circumstances Tempted Compensation Invoke

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.”

Ifs Giving Hard Seeing Balance Ghost Sincerity Shells Linked Candy Invoke Apparitions Hard Candy

Author:Alex Lemon

“I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.”

Knows Firsts Stills Jesus Records Entity Invoke

Author:Patti Smith

“I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.”

Knows Kind Wanted House Beats Hip Hop Hips Landscape Hops Translate Repetition Djs Invoke Techno Motifs

Author:DJ Spooky

“I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50.”

“I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?”

People Should Philosophy Evil Speak Memories Students Good Things Invoke Evil Things

Author:Elie Wiesel

“We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.”

Spiritual Situation Materials Compensation Invoke

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.”

Believe Ideas Speak I Believe Doubt Emotional Reader Rational Essays Be Confident Invoke Underrated Personal Essays Great Freedom

Author:Marty Nemko

“When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ. Christ is the bridegroom. In these symbolic actions, rather than in physical actions, where a male reaches sexuality or participates in intimate exchanges, if one uses a different term - there's often a heterosexual figuring that takes place. The male poet invokes a beautiful female muse. The virginal nun consecrated invokes the male bridegroom, Christ.”

Ifs Different Use Action Beautiful Term Christ Poet Female Males Sexuality Intimate Muse Vocation Symbolic Brides Nun Invoke Bridegroom

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.”

Doe Different Happens Desire Energy Figures Female Muse Invoke Female Writers

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.”

“It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.”

People Knows Littles Ends Whole America Used Christianity Tradition Lifetime Traditional Invoke

Author:Richard Rohr

“What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.”

I Can Existence Feet Shooting Improbable Invoke Improbability

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.”

Thinking Stills Stories Rights Election Voting Suppression Right To Vote Invoke

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”

Art Together Science Stars Sides Wonder Disease Ocean Depth Terror Conquer Desert Commerce Both Sides Invoke Inaugural Inaugural Address Wonder Of The World Inaugural Speech

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between the American story and the Old Testament story of Israel and then the broader story of the Christian church. It's OK to recognize the parallels. It's OK to invoke them. But, you have to keep that "almost" in front of the "chosen." You can't go all the way and say, "America is Israel, America is the Church." That's where I think patriotism shades into, what I call, the heresy of nationalism.”

People Thinking Way Stories Christian America Church Clear Fronts Israel Chosen Nationalism Shade Testament Parallels Heresy Literal Theological Old Testament Invoke Christian Church

Author:Ross Douthat

“Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.”

Mind Today Explanation Genetics Invoke Phobia

Author:Steven Pinker

“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”

Soul Helping Use Spiritual Angel Praise Affair Invisible Assistance Invoke Angelic Guardian Angel Always With You My Guardian Angel

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.”

Ifs Knows Lovers Taste Thousand Kissing Denied Flavor Wretched Invoke

Author:Italo Calvino

“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.”

Thinking Life Moments Facts Dream Our Lives Instruction Our Dreams Invoke

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?”

Heart Two Might Eye Night Pleasure Common Sweet Fingers Tongue Bitter Gentle Poison Bags Honey Perfume Bulls Closing Needles Invoke Clams Assorted Peppermint

Book:The Shipping News

Source: The Shipping News

“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”

Enough Philosophy Certain Enemy Ideals Regard Assurance Sincerely Invoke Interpreter

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?” “No.” “Care to guess?” “A pitchfork?” she asked in a stilted attempt at levity, hoping to invoke his earlier, playful mood. “No, my dear,” he answered drily. “A key to your room.” “What?”she breathed, aghast. “I should hate to have to use it.” “You have a key to this room?” “Mm-hmm.” She took a step toward the door, panic rising up in her throat. “You’re bluffing!” “Do you wish me to prove it?”

Knows Should Use Hands Care Hate Wish Rooms Steps Doors Keys Prove Dear Mood Rising Do You Know Throat Panic Skirts Prove It Invoke Spun Your Room Hmm Rising Up Levity Pitchforks Aghast

Book:Lord of Fire

Source: Lord of Fire