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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. (Pierre de Coubertin)
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' View quote
Peter Drucker
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. View quote
C. S. Lewis
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. View quote
Christopher Morley
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. View quote
Nick Mason
I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor. View quote
Sophia Bush
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference? (Frank Luntz)
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in. View quote
Bradley Whitford
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. View quote
Neville Chamberlain
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. View quote
Horace Mann
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. View quote
Fisher Ames
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. View quote
John Lennon
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. View quote
John Lennon
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. View quote
William James
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Call no man happy until he is dead. View quote
Solon
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? View quote
John Donne
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. View quote
Moby
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. View quote
Dorothy Day
There is no death What seems so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow