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They make a desert and call it peace.
Tacitus
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Samuel Johnson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Henry Huxley
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Ambrose Bierce
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.
Tacitus
Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, extortion day.
Jay Leno
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
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