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9288 quotes by 5082 authors
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
— David Foster Wallace
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first…
— Amy Weber
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One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I…
— Len Dawson
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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.
— Unknown Author
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A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political…
— Ronald Reagan
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
— Samuel Johnson
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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
— George Will
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear…
— Khalil Gibran
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed…
— Sydney J. Harris
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We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
— Max Stirner
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One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she…
— Shirley Chisholm
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As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is…
— Joan Nestle
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If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."
— Joe Bob Briggs
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Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law.…
— Rick Santorum
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
— Julian Barnes
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Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see…
— Richard Farson
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My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a…
— Lea DeLaria
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