Top 184 Invoke Quotes & Sayings

My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.

When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

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

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.

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

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

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

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

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.

Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

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.

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

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

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

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

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

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.

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

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

I'm vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them the curiosity to find more about that.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

I’m not saying we had a playroom, but I’m not shocked by the sex in the book. It’s essential to tell the story. I can’t believe films that don’t invoke a sexual side of it. So it works for me.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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.

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

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

Artists tend to be people of strong character and opinion. Often they are dismissed in our culture if they don't fit a certain mainstream media mold. It's a reason why filmmakers are now releasing films online. Art, in any form can invoke various emotions and actions. I think some can be frightened of the power that a simple image can invoke and that's why they tend to shy away from it. But art documents moments in our history and that image is often what many people remember of a certain time.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

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

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

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

Today's uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics.

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

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.

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.

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

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

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.