Quotes About Summon

A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

I was at a very select gathering in a hunting lodge in Leicestershire. How the devil she knew where to find me I really don't like to think. It's a sad day when one can't even escape to a select, supposedly secret orgy without having one's mother summon one—without a verbal blink.

CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, Defense reconjures Satan to the stand. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Lou, you can come in now … Bailiff! Go fetch him! Go fetch Satan! BAILIFF: Alone? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Go!

I would have to fill those little white rectangles with a lifetime of things that could generate happiness, contentment, satisfaction, or pleasure. I would have to fill them with every good experience I could summon up for a man whose powerless arms and legs meant he could no longer make them happen by himself.

14. Hateful Things: Someone has suddenly fallen ill and one summons the exorcist. Since he is not home, one has to send messages to look for him. After one has had a long fretful wait, the exorcist finally arrives, and with a sigh of relief one asks him to start his incantations. But perhaps he has been exorcising too many evil spirits recently; for hardly has he installed himself and begun praying when his voice becomes drowsy. Oh, how hateful!

We think words bring us close to people when they're gone but they're a comfort, not a substitute. Words can summon a memory but absence has no cure.

You can call for the cook, call for the baker, you may as well call for the undertaker.

Who summons the dead man?" she asked. "A fresh corpse," Æthelwold said. "A fresh corpse?" I asked. "Someone must be sent to the world of the dead," he explained, as though it were obvious, "to find Bjorn and bring him back." "So they kill someone?" Gisela asked. "How else can they send a messenger to the dead?" Æthelwold asked pugnaciously.

When we commit fully to our calling, we acknowledge the forces of inspiration that we hope to summon to our aid.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Strange began to laugh. 'Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

He raised his arms and in sonorous tones he called on Addy Domarus several times and in several different ways to Come! Come!

Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

He hurled out toward the battlefield, and someone called his name. Called him back. He did not heed it.

My French family will put up a terrible fuss," said Sarah anxiously. "Pierre might even summon his fellow officers and do something violent." Eben grinned. "Not if I have Huron warriors behind me.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo

I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.

The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put their trust in us.

Miss Smith opened the back door. "Ada," she called, "come here, please." Right. I pretended I hadn't heard, and turned Butter so our backsides faced her.

You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.