Lionel Shriver
Related You can call it withholding or taking, legal or illegal -- call it whatever you like. ALEXANDER MEDVEDEV You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing. LEAH RAEDER ENZO FERRARI WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To me it sounded like there was distress there as well, and that was the initial indication that she... JEFF LANZA You look back at the last 150 years of baseball and you can probably count on one hand how many time... GEOFF BLUM Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa... PHILIP T. M. VAN MORRISON JOHN BURROUGHS DIZZY DEAN KATIE MCGARRY You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve... RICK YANCEY GENA SHOWALTER RALPH WALDO EMERSON Time is like a phone call, but you can only call once. JACKSON TAVIRI HILARY MANTEL DEYTH BANGER ANONYMOUS It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so ... EDGARDO ALFONZO You can call me cocky, arrogant or whatever, ... I think I would have made that play. EARL LITTLE happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone else can see it but only you can feel the warmth. AMANDA ABRAHAM MASLOW WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HANNAH KENT ANDY SERKIS Can you take a traffic cone, paint face on it and call it art? Or move an ordinary chair in to an ar... ADRIAN SANDVAER LAILAH GIFTY AKITA MARGARET SANGER MARGARET SANGER MARK TWAIN JOHN COREY WHALEY TIM HARFORD LIONEL SHRIVER I thought it was a bad call, but when people come up to you and say they thought the wrong call was ... AL SEARS I didn't like it because Jell-O is soft to me. But I think they can call him 'Jell-O' now. I call hi... BOBBY MARTIN You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so. ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN It seemed like it was make-up call after make-up call. Man, just call the game. DOMINICK ROMERO LEWIS CARROLL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can see where the officials (on the field) can miss it. I think it probably took a little longer... LARRY COKER DEREK LANDY RICHELLE MEAD I didn't think it was good. But all three referees made the same call. RHONDA ROMPOLA RAINBOW ROWELL ARSENE WENGER LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o... JOEY TALLADINO Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it ... SOPHIA NIKOLAIDOU Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight. DAVE ATTELL MAYA ANGELOU She's very kind-hearted and very witty and funny. You watch her play and she has this scowl on her f... WILLIE MARYLAND Go to the nearest telephone and call your travel agent or call the airlines and try to get yourself ... KAREN CURE You can't find anybody in Washington that doesn't like Katie. That's nearly impossible to do. I can ... ADAM LEVINE Blake got a good pitch away. It's the basic hitting approach. You can call it a flare but it got the... JIM SCHMITZ BILLY JOEL I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it li... IAN ROBERTS I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO BOB MARLEY SAMUEL JOHNSON SAMUEL JOHNSON The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid.... TED NAIFEH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made. KRZYSZTOF KIEśLOWSKI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't even know if you can call them upsets. When I watched those games you think maybe it was jus... BRIAN ORR CHRIS EVANS She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never... MARINA DANIELS I'm sure when the governor of Louisiana calls the White House, they call her back. But it helps that... JAMES BARKSDALE JUSTINE SKYE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made pe... TIM WINTON DEBORAH TANNEN BOB MARLEY TUCKER CARLSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PETER KREEFT A woman goes to bed with a man if she is attracted; if she primarily does it for personal gain, what... DOROTHY STRATTEN MARLENE DIETRICH E.M. FORSTER She was doing a good job of hitting her spots. One bad pitch can make you or break you. She stayed s... AMY KRAUSE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. BILLY BARTY We could call it Herbie. And when she reaches adolescence, and goes boy-crazy, we can say "Herbie Go... MORAN, CAITLIN There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perf... MICHAEL CHABON You don't think about that. You come to play no matter where you are on the depth chart. I got the c... KYLE BELL Young is so tough, I don't know if you can ever stop her, but we did a good job of stopping everyone... CINDY STEIN That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly att... JO LEIGH It was a tough call. I don't know how you can make a call like that. That's not in my hands. The onl... ABDUL HODGE JAY ASHER Saw your list of 10 most devastating injuries. How can David Boston not be included? I'm assuming yo... DAVID BOSTON It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and colle... MARIT BJORGEN LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is a simple math problem, you get what you give. Call it karma or call it what you will. The ou... PHILIP T. M. We have a very good team, but she feels like she has to carry everyone on her back and sometimes tha... DAVID MOSER The cop who was on the passenger side said -- he was talking crazy to me. He said, 'You can call the... ANGELA LEWIS ELIZABETH WINDER DEYTH BANGER RICHARD L. EVANS MADONNA CICCONE
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SARGENT SHRIVER When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should... SARGENT SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disa... MARK SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and chari... SARGENT SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. SARGENT SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER You grab one or two cookies without even thinking about it. Or if you have something bad in the morn... ALANA SHRIVER I'd still like to lose about 20 pounds, but I feel like I'm a whole new person. ALANA SHRIVER I think they knew it was tough being a fat kid in school. They tried to help me lose the weight, but... ALANA SHRIVER Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. SARGENT SHRIVER Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world over... SARGENT SHRIVER Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in kil... SARGENT SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER We sought out iconic companies who make iconic products. BOBBY SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. SARGENT SHRIVER MARIA SHRIVER I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be ... SARGENT SHRIVER In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run ... SARGENT SHRIVER A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral. SARGENT SHRIVER The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions... SARGENT SHRIVER As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occu... SARGENT SHRIVER He's at home recovering and is doing great. EVELYN SHRIVER I think I had been something of a nuisance. They thought if I had my hands full, I wouldn't bother t... EVELYN SHRIVER My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I'... LIONEL BLUE LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned ... LIONEL BLUE Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. LIONEL BLUE Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. LIONEL TRILLING LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him... LIONEL TRILLING I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been... LIONEL BLUE Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. LIONEL BLUE Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th... LIONEL TRILLING I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sex... LIONEL BLUE LIONEL STRACHEY Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve... LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. LIONEL TRILLING Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. LIONEL TRILLING LIONEL STRACHEY We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b... LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte... LIONEL TRILLING The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit... LIONEL TRILLING Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss... LIONEL TRILLING A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader LIONEL TRILLING We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut... LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti... LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra... LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re... LIONEL BARBER LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. LIONEL HAMPTON LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n... LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond... LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it... LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ... LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. LIONEL JOSPIN LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li... LIONEL RICHIE I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag... LIONEL SUGGS My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t... LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... LIONEL TRILLING LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher... LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed. LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera... LIONEL TRILLING
If you can dream it, you can do it. 
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. 
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. 
If you think you can do it, you can. 
It ain't bragging if you can do it. 
Call Stella 'Trash Can Girl' again and I'll beat the h--- out of you. In fact, call her or anyone el... 
I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does. 
Do the thing and you will have the power. 
Well, you know the form,’ Bedingfield says. ‘She lives in that room and has her ladies – those... 
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... 
You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks of youth... 
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes l... 
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o... 
I was too young that time to value her,
You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same roo... 
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone. 
You can be all that you want to be.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free... 
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself fr... 
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She ... 
I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, ... 
We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries ac... 
He wasn't mad, he was sad. 
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no... 
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 
This," Adrian said grandly, "is Blake Lazar."
(Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.) 
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. 
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'... 
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call you... 
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she lov... 
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own 
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. 
Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain! 
Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, ever... 
For the most part, my daily attire is comfortable yet fashionable - I guess you can call it tomboyis... 
A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the o... 
she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else... 
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the sto... 
If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... 
Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true my... 
Its the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. 
It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhapp... 
How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?"
That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it... 
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. 
People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some b... 
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed re... 
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co... 
We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.
(cows'... 
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person... 
CLOVER VEIL
A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails. 
The ocean:
rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod, ... 
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you'... 
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... 
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. 
Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin... 
I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr... 
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. 
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.