Called Quotes
8011 Called quotes by 4669 unique authors
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Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.
— Jim Rohn
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Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.
— Jay Leno
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I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost…
— Johann Hari
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The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had…
— Mushfiqur Rahim
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I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith…
— William Wilberforce
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Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
— Pema Chodron
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This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
— Pema Chodron
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All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of…
— Ram Dass
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I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined…
— Unknown Author
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I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have…
— Kobe Bryant
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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them…
— Ellen Barkin
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And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and…
— Rosamund Pike
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Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as…
— Halldór Laxness
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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
— Leon Kass
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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
— Leon Kass
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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
— Carol Bellamy
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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you,…
— Evelyn Glennie
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
— Frances O'Grady
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But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that…
— Francis Quarles
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
— N.D. Wilson
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One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by…
— Michael Card
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If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
— Harvey Milk
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We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but…
— Carl Zimmer
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