Quotes with calls

Quotes 21 till 40 of 78.

  • Mark Twain He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Butler Yeats I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bria Skonberg If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Beth Ditto In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Graham Greene Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Horace Mann It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anthony Sampson Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me God'') to GCMG (''God Calls Me God'').
    Anthony Sampson
    British writer and journalist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bode Miller My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bette Midler My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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