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John Updike quote: "Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous,..."
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. John Updike
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing Khalil Gibran
When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself? Paulo Coelho
Take courage and confess your sin, says Luther, do not try to run away from it, but believe more boldly still. You are a sinner, so be a sinner, and don't try to become what you are not. Yes, and become a sinner again and again every day, and be bold about it. But to whom can such words be addressed, except to those who from the bottom of their hearts make a daily renunciation of sin and of every barrier which hinders them from following Christ, but who nevertheless are troubled by their... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Baby Kochamma had installed a dish antenna on the roof of the Ayemenem house. She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV. The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn’t hard to understand. It wasn’t something that happened gradually. It happened overnight. Blondes, wars, famines, football, sex, music, coups d’etat—they all arrived on the same train. They unpacked together. They stayed at the same hotel. And in Ayemenem, where once the loudest sound... Arundhati Roy
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life. Michael Chabon
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. Howard Schultz
Before me floats an image, man or shade, Shade more than man, more image than a shade; For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth. May unwind the winding path; A mouth that has no moisture and no breath. Breathless mouths may summon;("Byzantium") William Butler Yeats
Theodore Roethke quote: "All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and..."
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke
If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything. Joyce Carol Oates
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. Franz Kafka
George R. R. Martin quote: "You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness."
You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness. George R. R. Martin
Alice Walker quote: "Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams."
Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. Alice Walker
There was a man so wise, He jumped into. A sandy place. And burnt out both his eyes! And when he knew his eyes were gone, He offered no complaint. He summoned up a vision. And made himself a saint. -Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib Frank Herbert

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