Calls Quotes
1502 quotes by 1220 authors
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an…
— Winston Churchill
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
— Jean Cocteau
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes…
— Marina Abramovic
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I…
— Fiona Apple
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness…
— Clifford Stoll
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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls…
— Alan Villiers
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In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and…
— Dot Richardson
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
— Aristotle
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you…
— Henri Nouwen
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your…
— Ole Hallesby
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Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a…
— Tim O'Reilly
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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God…
— Carter Heyward
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We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the…
— Susan Ward
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
— Mark Twain
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
— Seneca the Younger
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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
— Mark Twain
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