Calls Quotes

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.