Calling Quotes

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

It's America calling the shots in everything

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.