Calling Quotes - Page 25

• We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop calling it 'Obama's economy'?

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Years, Months

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• Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Inspirational, God, Mom

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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  Jacob Lew

  Thinking, Careers, Differences

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• As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Motherhood, Highest

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

  Bruce Coville

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

  Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

  Kirsten Powers

  Inability, Cards, Becoming

  "Fox News’ evangelical Democrat: An interview with Kirsten Powers". Interview withJonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. April 10, 2013.

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• We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

  Monte J. Brough

  Principles, Might, Good Work

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

  John Vaillant

  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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• Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

  Nicole Richie

  Block, Numbers, Fame

  Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Names

  "President Bush Outlines Educational Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2001.

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sunset, Sky, Two

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Beautiful, Greatest Fear, Novelists

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• Apart from if Playboy come calling.

  Michelle Bass

  Playboy, Ifs

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• I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

  Norah Jones

  Mom, Baby, Way

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

  Susa Young Gates

  Sister, Useless, Spirit

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, People, Earth

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• When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Names, Religion

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• Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

  George Michael

  Stupid, Eye, Missing

  "Song: "Fastlove" ("Older")". 1996.

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• God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

  Ray Bradbury

  Here And There, Madness

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• Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Organization, Together, Different

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• 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 .

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Hell, Epithet

  'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy' (1865) ch. 7

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• The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

  Eric Sevareid

  Jobs, People, Littles

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• Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Taken, White

  "Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?" by Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. February 3, 2010.

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• You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Basketball, Team, Stupid

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