Quotes About Summoned

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time ... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me.

Confidence is a feeling of certainty, a natural inner resource that can be summoned whenever you want it.

It is hereby certified that the bearer, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the said night at Satan's ball, having been summoned there in the capacity of a means of transportation…make a parenthesis, Hella, in the parenthesis put "hog. Signed — Behemoth.

A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch, Carrot drew himself up proudly, because someone's taken a book ? You think that's worse than murder? The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like What's so bad about genocide?

Put your slippers on, lass. You'll catch a chill." Jillian glared at him. Quinn moved to her side and offered his arm for her to lean on while she donned her slippers. "He's right. The stones are cold, lass. As to the why of it, your da summoned us to look after Caithness in his absence, Jillian." "Really?" Jillian said sweetly, adding "liar" to the list of nasty names she was calling men in the privacy of her thoughts.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

It was best to shun such places. But the places summoned, as if they yearned for his observation, as if, without it, they would not be real in this world, or would decay. Sometimes they had birthed new myths for him to catalogue.

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

It's very easy to claim you've summoned something that's invisible and incorporeal.

The Magnati have all been summoned for the funeral, and I'll be announcing our betrothal once they're gathered.

For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle if it was my imagination which had summoned her up, because it happened at the very moment I had broken down and given up.

Europe would go down first, with its socialized medical-care systems and pliant citizens sure to show up for their shots when summoned, then America, then, in due course, the rest of the world.

In August 1862, he lectured five black leaders whom he had summoned to the White House that it was their duty, given what their people had done to the United States, to accept the exodus to South America, telling them, "But for your race among us there could not be war."10 As to just how and why "your race" came to be "among us," Lincoln conveniently ignored.

I did not wish to be summoned by your Princess. Summoned, I did not wish to come. But having been summoned, and having come, I mean to give a good account of myself. That's how I was taught by my father, and the men of his age who slew Kings and swept away not merely Governments but whole Systems of Thought, like Khans of the Mind.

In Sam's rough mountain-man philosophy those persons who became the wards of sadness and melancholy had never summoned for use and trial more than a part of what they had in them, and so had failed themselves and their Creator.

In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.

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 find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The cabins radiated permanence and in turn summoned timeless feelings in those who lived and died in them: envy and spite.

On the day before the fleet's departure from Seville, August 9, 1519, Magellan was summoned from his frantic last-minute

Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.

His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.