Called Quotes
8011 Called quotes by 4669 unique authors
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Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon…
— Alan Wolfe
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis…
— George Mikes
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When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.
— Thomas Haden Church
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The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
— Dick Dale
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles…
— Aristotle
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When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the…
— Charles Darwin
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Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time.…
— Edward S. Herman
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You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
— George Eliot
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My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that…
— Chuck Mangione
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
— Maurice Jarre
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Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.…
— Michael Dell
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It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to…
— Sister Parish
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One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd…
— Debbie Gibson
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional…
— Abba Eban
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What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler.…
— Laozi
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Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound…
— Laozi
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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity…
— Laozi
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Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
— Laozi
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