Calling Quotes

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.