I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person. . . . . . the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
The streets of L. A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath. . . laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
All attack is a call for help.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them. . . you show them the reasons.
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.