Famous quotes containing the word call:
“My feelings about my work are, on the whole, not unfriendly. Boundless modesty and what people call humility are virtues scarcely conducive to ones complacently dwelling upon ones own workparticularly when one lacks them.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? Nowe are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“It was not death he fearedit was the disgrace of death, and the misery of the ignominious preparations. He knew in his heart that heaven could not call it murder that he had done; but he felt equally sure that man would do so.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)