We Call Quotes
1088 We Call quotes by 766 unique authors
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Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
— C.S. Lewis
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Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous…
— Stuart Wilde
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit…
— David Mamet
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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
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When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call…
— James Redfield
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Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
— Tom Robbins
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We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not…
— Unknown Author
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Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
— Joseph Campbell
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a…
— Marcel Proust
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Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a…
— Barry Lopez
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But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
— Donna Tartt
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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the…
— Julio Cortazar
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When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an…
— Haim Ginott
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Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share…
— Alberto Manguel
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To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long,…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of…
— Lisa See
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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and…
— H.G. Wells
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SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and…
— Pascal Mercier
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Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
— Virginia Woolf
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For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet…
— George Eliot
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
— Albert Camus
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