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“You buy so little and ask for even less, which makes me want to spoil you. That’s not how I grew up, which you will soon see. We Berbers ask for everything and get even more in return, much of which we don’t deserve and haven’t earned. But you have access to so much but never touch it. I respect that, and your parents for raising you to value friends and family over money and power.”
Source: Of Deception and Divinity
“you buy your train ticket and aim to get off at your stop, unless you happen to drift off. Then you go to wherever you wake up, and maybe that was just the destination that was meant for you from the start.”
Source: Snake
“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.”
Source: Tolkien: A Biography
“You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.”
Source: Cities of the Plain
“You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.”
“You call it as my bad time, I call it as my showtime”
“You call it cheating...
You call it adultery...
She doesn't live by your rules,
But lives off her nudes...”
“You call it demonic because you hear screaming, I call it life saving because I hear the meaning.”
“You call it God complex,
I call it God consciousness.
Apes wait up for a savior to come,
human stands savior as vessel of change.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.
- Edgar Allan Poe, "Tamerlane”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
“You call it music, I call it my therapist.”
“You call it shame and regret. I call it research and development.”
“You call it share and regret.
I call it research and development.”
“You call it 'Sunshine'? You'd call it "Hell"? I would rather call it, heaven of fire.”
“You call me a liar, perhaps I shall be your best advocate”
“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
“you call me anarchist. You, who have destroyed the government of the people”
Source: The Iron Heel
“You call me disrespectful
When it’s not possible in my being
To disrespect
A pebble in the street.
A bug on the wall.
A leaf on a tree.
Or any of God’s creatures.
Even those that are pests or perhaps unsafe.
How can you say that I am so...
With the man I love?
All you need to do is to
Turn back the words you say to me
And say them to yourself
To know the truth.
You're just looking in the mirror
And seeing yourself when you look at me.
It’s called projection...
One letter away from protection.
And this understanding
Is the only thing
That brings me comfort.”
“You call me friend? I’ve never had any friends, but I am positive this isn’t how they treat one another. I’m not a pet. I’m not your slave. I am a human being... You cannot take my freedom.”
“You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contemptible because I sought my 'better self' outside me; I was the unhuman because I dreamed of the 'human'; I resembled the pious who hunger for their 'true self' and always remain 'poor sinners'; I thought of myself only in comparison to another; enough, I was not all in all, was not—unique.[102] But now I cease to appear to myself as the unhuman, cease to measure myself and let myself be measured by man, cease to recognize anything above me: consequently—adieu, humane critic! I only have been the unhuman, am it now no longer, but am the unique, yes, to your loathing, the egoistic; yet not the egoistic as it lets itself be measured by the human, humane, and unselfish, but the egoistic as the—unique.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“You call my kind Otherworldly, but as the daughter of the King, you live in a world that is out of reach even of your fellow humans.
You, Princess, are as otherworldly as they come.”
Source: Solstice Stories: Four Fairy Tale Retellings
“You call that a kiss?"
"Yep."
Okay, so I'm in shock the girl put my hand on her creamy cheek. Damn, you'd think I was on drugs by the way my body reacted.
She had me totally under her spell a minute ago. Then the pretty witch turned my game around so she was the one with the upper hand.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“You call that a kiss?”
“You call that admiring? I call that eye rape.”
Source: Converting The Bad Boy
“You call that caring?! I call it a line of crap! The only thing you cared about begins with an “F” and ends with me losing my virginity!”
Source: Whistlin' Dixie
“You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“You call them 'homeless', but the Earth is their Home.”
“You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.”
“You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.”
“You Call This One And It's All Over, Baby!”
“You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'”
“You call yourself a director?” Farid said.
Zaman dropped his hands. “I haven’t been paid in over six months. I’m broke because I’ve spent my life’s savings on this orphanage. Everything I ever owned or inherited I sold to run this godforsaken place. You think I don’t have family in Pakistan and Iran? I could have run like everyone else. But I didn’t I stayed. I stayed because of them.” He pointed at the door. “If I deny him one child, he takes ten. So I let him take one and leave the judging to Allah. I swallow my pride and take his goddam filthy… dirty money. Then I go to the bazaar and buy food for the children.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
“You call yourself 'Bullseye'... but I know a Hawkeye when I see one.”
Source: Avengers: Twilight
“You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?”
“You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”
“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”
“You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.”
“You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.”
Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths
“You called me a pendejo.”
“You are a pendejo,” Ty grunted.”
Source: Crash & Burn
“you called me` am your true love , than how come you done the love marriage with someone else ?...”
“You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza." "I did? What time is it?" "Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“You called me by my right name," I said. "You called me Percy Jackson."
"I most certainly did not, Peter Johnson. Now off with you!”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
But that's a lie because I heard your moms breathing on the phone.
And if you really like me, let your moms know
She should mind her business...before I let go.”
“You called me your close friend. I won’t let you go. I miss you. I know that you’ll see my messages someday.”