Call Them Quotes
299 Call Them quotes by 261 unique authors
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and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I…
— Mark Helprin
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The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and…
— Maria von Trapp
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He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd…
— Rick Riordan
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As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly…
— Chaim Potok
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The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten…
— Angela Carter
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
— George Eliot
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The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's…
— Steven Moffat
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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
— Tom Robbins
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Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.
— Rick Riordan
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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number…
— Eileen Wilks
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
— Paulo Coelho
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Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The…
— George R. R. Martin
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Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.
— Rick Riordan
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Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still…
— Betty Smith
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Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
— Andre Gide
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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
— Mark Twain
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We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but…
— Aravind Adiga
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I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who…
— Libba Bray
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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now…
— Charles Kingsley
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Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end…
— Paul Arden
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