Thing We Call Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
— Mary Oliver
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Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
— Morris Mandel
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A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible…
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how…
— Stephen Coonts
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One…
— William Dean Howells
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There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call…
— Jean Baker Miller
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
— Noam Chomsky
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What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what…
— B. C. Forbes
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It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression…
— Bob Mould
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Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from…
— Steven James
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it…
— Alexander Berkman
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Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'
— David Wojnarowicz
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Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal…
— Toni Morrison
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By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time…
— Lynda Barry
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We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we…
— Frederick Lenz
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Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate…
— Aldous Huxley
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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term…
— Ang Lee
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
— Dan Quayle
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Thing We Call Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Thing We Call Quotes as follows: