Calling Quotes - Page 16

• I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  Joseph Muscat

  Honesty, Lying, Tired

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• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  Gabrielle Union

  Dog, Stars, Children

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• Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Ideas, Lunch, Who I Am

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

  Horace Bushnell

  Praying

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.49

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• I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Order, Color, Humanity

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.15, Vintage

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• The coaches hate each other, the players hate each other... There's no calling each other after the game and inviting each other out to dinner. But the feeling's mutual: They don't like us, and we don't like them. There's no need to hide it, they know it, and we know it. It's going to be one of those black and blue games.

  Hines Ward

  Hate, Player, Blue

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• I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.

  Tila Tequila

  Believe, Moving, Found

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• Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.

  Charles S. Maier

  Government, Innovation, Nudge

  Charles S. Maier (1987). “In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Heart, Essence, Judgement

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

  Melanie

  Girl, Cards, Should

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• Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

  Jan Egeland

  Party, Ceasefire, Today

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

  Kohta Hirano

  Fool, Left, Indication

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• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Children, Lakes

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

  Alister E. McGrath

  Ideas, Leaving, World

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.257, John Wiley & Sons

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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• If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned.

  David Wright

  Play, Appreciate, Choices

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• It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Hurt, Healing

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosopher, Abandon, Subjects

  Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

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• We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Community, Catholic

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• We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth. ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands

  G. Homer Durham

  Responsibility, Israel, Hands

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• All that I now hold dear in life began to mature in the mission field. Had I not been encouraged to be a missionary, I would not have the eternal companion or precious family I dearly love. I am confident that I would not have had the exceptional professional opportunities that stretched my every capacity. I am certain that I would not have received the sacred callings with opportunities to serve for which I will be eternally grateful. My life has been richly blessed beyond measure because I served a mission.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessed, Grateful, Opportunity

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• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didn't even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and he's telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

  Baron Davis

  Basketball, Team, Hate

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Baron Davis". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. March 4, 2012.

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