I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.
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.
We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency. . . Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell. ' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.
To invoke the origin of the DNAprotein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.
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 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.
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.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
