Call Declined Quotes & Sayings

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county. — Wen Jiabao

Haply for I am black,
And have not those soft parts of conversation
That chamberers have; or for I am declined
Into the vale of years - yet that's not much
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad
And live upon the vapor of a dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they less than the base.
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. — William Shakespeare

When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal? — Nash Summers

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy. — Peter Thiel

Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas. — Sandy Carter

And it's important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. — Tarryn Fisher

Our campaigns have not grown more humanistic because our candidates are more benevolent or their policy concerns more salient. In fact, over the last decade, public confidence in institutions-- big business, the church, media, government-- has declined dramatically. The political conversation has privileged the nasty and trivial. Yet during that period, election seasons have awakened with a new culture of volunteer activity. This cannot be credited to a politics inspiring people to hand over their time but rather to campaign, newly alert to the irreplaceable value of a human touch, seeking it out. Finally campaigns are learning to quantify the ineffable - the value of a neighbor's knock, of a stranger's call, the delicate condition of being undecided-- and isolate the moment where a behavior can be changed, or a heart won. Campaigns have started treating voters like people again. — Sasha Issenberg

... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building. — Harold Bell Wright

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters? — Brandon Sanderson

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! — Michael Jordan

When people come over to my house for dinner, I always have a vegetarian option. They can make do, or they can **** off! — Jimmy Carr