Famous quotes containing the word called:
“Ce corps qui sappelait et qui sappelle encore le saint empire romain nétait en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Known commonly as the jackass, this long-eared little creature is respected throughout the southwestroundly cursed yet respectedand here he is usually referred to by his Spanish name, burro. Because of his extraordinary bray, he is sometimes ironically called the Arizona Nightingale.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)