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Call Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and…
- What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other…
- There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
- I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
- Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of…
- My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
- It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,…
- The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in…
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as…
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
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- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
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