We Call Quotes
1088 quotes by 804 authors
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time…
— Margaret Atwood
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
— Saul Bellow
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a…
— Robert Benchley
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What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms…
— Annie Besant
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
— Niels Bohr
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as…
— James Buchan
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the…
— Steve Buyer
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I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be…
— Nicolas Cage
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
— Albert Camus
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
— Sherman Alexie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven…
— Noam Chomsky
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My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that…
— Deepak Chopra
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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we…
— Marianne Williamson
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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