When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Al Capone

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Kurt Vonnegut

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
Conan O'Brien

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich