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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. View quote
Alexander Pope
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . View quote
Alexander Pope
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
Edmund Burke
I have great faith in fools My friends call it self-confidence. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. View quote
Robert Frost
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year--to really dissect the budget. View quote
Tyra Banks
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year, Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day For Im to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. (Morihei Ueshiba)
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. View quote
Philip Johnson
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. View quote
David Fincher
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living. View quote
Morrissey
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy-some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. View quote
Robert Browning
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. (George Santayana)
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. View quote
Octavia Butler
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. View quote
Woody Allen
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller