Top 1200 So-Called Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

I think we all have different personalities... and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

My first professional job was a Pete Bowker series for ITV called 'Monroe.' I played a Junior Cardiac Surgeon called Mullery.

From the age of ten I was a full blown fuzz ball to the point that my so-called friends called me 'Hairy McLary From Donaldson's Dairy.'

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner.

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. So, it can be called great.

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

It isn't called dressage any more - it is called 'dancing horses.'

Men aren't called pricks, but women are called cunts.

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

I'm afraid in my family we still laugh now about the fact that I was called 'stubborn' and my brother was called 'determined.'

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I had come across a critic called Kenneth Burke, who wrote a book called A Rhetoric of Motives, and it seemed to talk about another way, and gradually I realized that other way was that the reader made a difference.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Remember, before they called it Obamacare, they called it Hillarycare.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

I worked with an indie filmmaker called Mark Williams, a lawyer who was making a zero-budget family drama called 'Move Me.'

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

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. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

You see how Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about "anchor babies"? Hillary tweeted, "They aren't called 'anchor babies.' They're called 'babies,'" which is a bit ironic given that Hillary's a big supporter of Planned Parenthood where "babies" are called "tissue mass" and, what, "unviable cells"? Whatever it is.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

The reports that Media Matters have done about sexism in our society and really the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton "castrating," they called her the B word, they called her all kinds of horrible things. And I think in a sense that it raised the awareness in our country, so that we can have a national discussion about it.

If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're more comfortable with.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.