We Call Them Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
— Robert Fulghum
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but…
— Walter Savage Landor
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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of…
— Bruce Alberts
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There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We…
— Glenn Beck
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
— Charles de Lint
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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big'…
— Dakota Fanning
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Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind…
— Janet Napolitano
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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
— George Will
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Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
— Hamza Yusuf
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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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Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and…
— Dan Simmons
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Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.
— Patti Stanger
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We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike any other animal…
— Patricia McConnell
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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
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Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'
— Joel Miller
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For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things,…
— Joseph Campbell
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