#called

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#ask #bandits #chechen #everyone #here

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#called #catholic #christian #church #even

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#because #called #flesh #god #his

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#been #called #given #kingdom #long

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. ↗

— James Allen

#called #channels #easy #energy #fall

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#called #does #enemy #except #harm

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

#called #complex #conventional #could #deep

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#charm #divinely #each #faculties #gave