The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
Steve Irwin

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
James Cagney

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

We've been called, and He has blessed.
Willie Aames

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
Richard Pryor

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson