#vice

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#call #expect #inferior #lazy #reckon

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. ↗

— Og Mandino

#better #expected #matter #may #more

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#delay #efficiency #employees #governments #ignore

Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#devices #every #every day #get #i

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#devices #every #every day #get #i

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

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