Calling Quotes

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.

Apart from if Playboy come calling.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.

I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul.

Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!

Medicine has always been my calling.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home. Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

[Donald] Trump is obsessed with name calling.

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."