Summoned

Famous quotes containing the word summoned:

“Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)