Calling Quotes
Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!
It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.
In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.
I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.
I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.
It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.
We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.