Called Quotes
8011 Called quotes by 4669 unique authors
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The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of…
— Pope Francis
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A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s…
— George Saunders
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I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be…
— Louis Farrakhan
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Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter…
— Louis Farrakhan
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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
— Albert Camus
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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
— John McGahern
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Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately
— John Howard Yoder
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I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all…
— Charley Pride
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In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply…
— John Main
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The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still…
— Steve Vai
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I would rather be called funny than pretty.
— Nia Vardalos
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I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.
— Kelly Ripa
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I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man…
— Daniel Tosh
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Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of…
— Kenny Smith
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
— Seneca the Younger
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We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be…
— Helen M. Luke
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Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the…
— Mark Kurlansky
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Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
— John Allen Paulos
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This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of…
— Joan Didion
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The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even…
— James E. Faust
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