#calls

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

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. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#calling #calls #come #continue #division

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

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cautious #himself #man #sordid #thrifty

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

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#always #control #error #every #everything

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#having #i #like #people #return

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#calls #entirely #even #frivolous #love

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

— Ralph Nader

#lobby #manufacturing #networks #nobody #returns

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains. ↗