Calls Quotes
1502 Calls quotes by 1174 unique authors
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Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
— Thomas de Quincey
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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
— William Cowper
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
— Edgar Degas
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Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths…
— Edmond Rostand
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For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
— Isaac Watts
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Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
— Eugene Field
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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to…
— Leonard Cohen
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One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all…
— Greg Norman
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If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds.…
— Jerry Lewis
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Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've…
— Robert R. McCammon
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E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
— James Parton
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When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all…
— James McCosh
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It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been…
— Joseph Fiennes
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If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
— Chaka Khan
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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for…
— Ai Weiwei
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Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the…
— Walter J. Phillips
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It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood…
— Terry Wogan
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Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls…
— Christopher Peterson
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We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people…
— Jane Anderson
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