#calls

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#calls #come #conscience #conviction #everything

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

#commoner #everyone #fool #friend #himself

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#calls #characteristic #endeavor #endure #face

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#because #calls #day #directors #friends

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#back #blind #bring #calls #challenge

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil. ↗

— Len Wein

#believe #believes #brotherhood #calls #character

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#another #calls #defending #even #freedoms

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#came #campaign #gave #had #list

Life is mysterious as well as vulgar. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#efimero #ephemeral #life #llamadas-telefonicas #meaning

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#each #feel #funding #more #public