Call - Quotes
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you`d start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Show me a man or woman alone and I`ll show you a saint. Give me two and they`ll fall in love. Give me three and they`ll invent the charming thing we call 'society'.
What shall I call you,
when my lips receive
the flaming ruby of yours,
and our souls fuse in the fire of the kiss
like night and day in dawn,
and I can no longer see the world,
no longer see time,
and I drown in mysterious
transports of eternity -
what shall I call you?
You are the call and I am the answer
You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,
You are the night, and I the day.
What else - it is perfect enough.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all, and even if they don't, a complete unified theory may not make much difference to our chances of survival.