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Ray: A lot of midgets tend to kill themselves. A disproportionate amount, actually. Hervé Villechaize off of Fantasy Island. I think somebody from the Time Bandits did. I suppose they must get really sad about like... being really little and that......

In Bruges

The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral.

Nigerian

Don't call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.

Yiddish

I could hold you prisoner here for the rest of the day and list everything I love about you, but that’s only half of it,” he explained, turning toward me. “The other half is something I can’t put into words. Something I don’t think I’ll e...

Clash

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in f...

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared or incapable. He calls those who have the talent and ability to ser...

Diane's Daily Devotions: A Daily Scripture Study with Devotional Development

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of ...

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he’d been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by he...

Dreamfever

Still is just the right way to be. You rise in the morning to go about your day. You remember a friend who has troubles. You don't quibble with yourself about whether to call her; you don't write a reminder on your Palm Pilot or in your planner to ma...

Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacol...

Brave New World

When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -" "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. “Jesus! Son of David!” he shouted. “Have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47). The crowd turned to him in disgust. “Shut your mouth, son of filth!” But Ba...

Arms Open Wide: A Call to Linger in the Savior's Presence

Can you hear me? Sighing. You were right. My requiem is well prepared. Still to be written is the poem that is never complete, an endless rubbing on the ink block, an endless dipping of the pen, an endless swoop over the white paper, the poem of my l...

I Called Him Necktie

Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have y...

T.C. Boyle

Donnie Azoff: I got a couple of mil' comin' in like a week. And when it gets in, I'll give you a call and you come pick it up. Brad: You'll give me a call? Donnie Azoff: When it gets here, I'll give you a call and you'll come pick it up. Chantalle: W...

The Wolf of Wall Street

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

The Call of the Canyon

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Caravan of Dreams

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist