Adjuration Quotes & Sayings

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. — Ambrose Bierce

Up up and quit your books' is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions -- as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Asters

Asters - sweltering days

old adjuration/curse,

the gods hold the balance

for an uncertain hour.


Once more the golden flocks

of heaven, the light, the trim -

what is the ancient process

hatching under its dying wings?


Once more the yearned-for,

the intoxication, the rose of you -

summer leaned in the doorway

watching the swallows -


one more presentiment

where certainty is not hard to come by:

wing tips brush the face of the waters,

swallows sip speed and night. — Gottfried Benn

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain De Lille

When two evil guys fight in a duel,
the worst of both will be the winner. — Toba Beta

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. — Nigel Farage

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. — Karl A. Menninger

Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it. — Leo Tolstoy

With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive. The passenger booked by this history — Anonymous

Those entering the Saloon Bar of the 'The Midnight Bell' from the street came through a large door with a fancifully frosted glass pane, a handle like a dumb-bell a brass inscription 'Saloon Bar and Lounge,' and a brass adjuration to Push. Anyone temperamentally so wilful, careless, or incredulous as to ignore this friendly admonition was instantly snubbed, for this door would only succumb to Pushing. Nevertheless hundreds of temperamental people nightly argued with this door and got the worst of it. Given proper treatment, however, it swung back in the most accomplished way, and announced you to the Saloon Bar with a welcoming creak. — Patrick Hamilton