#calls

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#because #calls #counsel #effect #force

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#actor #calls #college #cops #experience

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calls #immoral #own #shame #show

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#before #calls #contacts #hard #how

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#array #attention #calls #children #constant

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school. ↗

— Junior Seau

#always #arm #because #calls #football

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#ferocity #him #man #murder #tiger

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#admired #along #been #before #calls

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#baby #calls #country #elimination #every

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

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#around #calls #equipped #explores #five