Quotes about call
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“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: The Argonauts

Pleasure

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Beauty, Imagination, Nature

“Are you demented, you stupid badger? Is that your problem? Or are you just an idiot?"
"As to that, I… Did you just call me a badger?"
"A bastard. I called you a bastard.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: This Heart of Mine

Stupidity, Problem

“If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.”

Gail Simone (1974) writer

War

“Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humor = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom”

Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

Wisdom, Dreams, Reality, Heart

“Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Dreams, Feeling, Joy

“Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Boy, Water

“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

People

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.”

Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965) German author

Tree, Winter, Animals

“I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

Life, Thinking

“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life, Home, Sleep, Dance

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”

H. Beam Piper book Little Fuzzy

Source: Little Fuzzy

Drink

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Sir Walter Scott Collection Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

History, Literature, Knowledge

“You're screening your calls?"
"Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots."
"Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl.
"You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(…)”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

God

“Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?"

"No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Love, Peace, Justice, Forgiveness

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: The Eye in the Pyramid

“Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

God, Thinking

“God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

God, World, Suffering, Selfishness

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Time, Madness

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

Life, Death

“My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

People, Idea

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

Knowledge

“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

History, Thinking, Princess

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“… we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

World

“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: A Thousand Mornings

World, Tree

“Miracles occur,
If you dare to call those spasmodic
Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's
begun again,
The long wait for the angel,
For that rare, random descent.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Angels, Waiting

“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

God

“To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.”

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

People

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Wisdom

“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Dogs

“I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Guy, Fashion, Thinking

“Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Thinking

“It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

God, Truth, Smile

“Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.”

Johannes Kepler book Mysterium Cosmographicum

As quoted by Karl Fink, Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik (1890) translated as A Brief History of Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=3hkPAAAAIAAJ (1900, 1903) by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith. Also see Carl Benjamin Boyer, A History of Mathematics (1968). <br class="br">Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear…”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Beauty

“So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?”
Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Hope, Fish

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

1890s
Source: The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894 being criticisms contributed week by week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)

Flowers

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

Sadness

“What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

Dogs

“She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.”

J.M. Coetzee book Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

Smile, Change, Madness

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Wisdom, Justice, Knowledge

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

War

“I suppose you could call me… Soot," said the thing. "Yes… Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot.”

Garth Nix book Grim Tuesday

Source: Grim Tuesday

“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Feeling

“Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Sister

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.”

Roger Zelazny Lord of Light

Source: Lord of Light

God

“For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Love, Life, War, Way

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”

Tim Dorsey book Nuclear Jellyfish

Source: Nuclear Jellyfish

People

“Carter, not to be unkind," I said, "but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia. Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes."
"It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Help

“I'll call you," he repeated.
"If you call me, I won't pick up the phone."
"You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Waiting

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Wisdom, God, Justice, Law

“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Truth

“There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.”

Brian Jacques book Mossflower

Source: Mossflower

Life, War, Justice, Evil

“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”

Mary Hoffman book City of Masks

Source: City of Masks

Search, Girl, Thinking, Help

“The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today…

… some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.
And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Context: Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing, as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we're always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony. But we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for in all our history there has never been such a monumental dissent during a war, by the American people.

Silence, Betrayal, Time, Night