Calling Quotes

It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

Amigo! Amigo!" (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)

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.

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.

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."

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.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.