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1088 We Call quotes by 766 unique authors

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. — Henry Ford
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and… — John Thorn
To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul. — John O'Donohue
Trace the stars with your fingers in hopes you’ll connect the dots, but don’t get caught in the lines that aren’t really there ‘cause there… — John O'Callaghan
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. — George H. Mead
Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we… — LZ Granderson
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And… — William Irwin Thompson
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged… — Edwin A. Abbott
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak… — Tarthang Tulku
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call… — Amy Carmichael
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in… — Rebecca Solnit
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure… — Henri Frederic Amiel
And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which… — Ralph Bunche
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years… — Marc Garneau
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the… — Larry Elder
Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ, — Clayton Kershaw
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of… — Gerald Durrell
People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what… — Unknown Author
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which… — Medard Boss
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash… — Rama Swami
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger

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