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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than… — C.S. Lewis
First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand… — Paulo Coelho
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to… — George MacDonald
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive. — Lynda Barry
How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,… — John Galsworthy
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is… — Douglas Coupland
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we… — Lynne Truss
The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory. — Tim O'Brien
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. — Benjamin Franklin
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Well, that’s just a little hard, since I can’t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You haven’t exactly endeared yourself to her. (Kat)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's… — David Levithan
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. — Salvador Dali
You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead? — Oscar Wilde
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver
It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal… — Michael Gruber
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed… — David Mitchell
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts.… — Joseph Campbell

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