Call Quotes

Only when man's life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. (Aeschylus)
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. View quote
Rebecca West
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. View quote
Richard Bach
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. View quote
George Eliot
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves... is what I call hell. View quote
André Malraux
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Great necessities call out great virtues. View quote
Abigail Adams
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. (John Dryden)
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. View quote
Anne Tyler
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. View quote
Kevin Spacey
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. View quote
Hermann Hesse
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. View quote
W. C. Fields
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. View quote
Octavio Paz
Whatever limits us we call fate. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. View quote
José Mourinho
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt