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Quotes About Invoke

When a leader invokes blood to arouse us to support him and his cause, it is time for us to be on our guard, to think of those long millennia when our ancestor's lives were safeguard by blood and sacrifice.
~ Doris Lessing
No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.
~ John Eudes
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
~ Lajos Kossuth
When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
I invoke the genius of the Constitution.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
Consider Microsoft Word. Until the mid-1990s, repaginating a document was a foreground task. You had to invoke the Repaginate command and then wait many seconds—for long documents, minutes—for it to complete before you could return to editing the document.
~ Jeff Johnson
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity.
~ Alan Moore
Actually, it's thought to come from Greek mythology. According to Greek myths, dryads lived in trees, and people would invoke them for protection. Hence knocking on wood: just that added bit of protection so as not to tempt fate.
~ Jenny Han
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre.
~ Robert Rinder
The government is to you what God is to agnostics – only to be invoked when your own well-being is at stake!
~ Amitav Ghosh
A person who can't trust the presence of God in the heart of his own has only to invoke his faith on Almighty by wearing products like amulet, bracelet, neck chain, ring stone and so on.
~ Anuj Somany
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
~ Aristophanes
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.
~ John Ralston Saul
Just as well, as it saved me having to invoke privacy, or bite. Metaphorically speaking. Biting a colleague is probably grounds for dismissal, even—especially?—in a massively multispecies, massively multicultural work environment.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors - however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
~ Brassai
Southerners could not throw off the Constitution and at the same time invoke it to protect slavery.
~ Stephen B. Oates