#ringing

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#home #i #phone #picked #please

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. ↗

— Robert Welch

#declaring #democracy #editorials #newspapers #ringing

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants. ↗

— William John Wills

#clothes #comes #does #everyone #foolish

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#business #dull #element #eminently #even

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#best way #bringing #discovered #generation #home

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#closely #economic #exclusion #free #globalized

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget