Calling Quotes - Page 26

• The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Light, Way

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.418

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• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Sky, Tree

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• The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

  Michael Dolan

  Nature, Ocean, Tree

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

  Timothy Keller

  Looks, Way, Accidents

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.249, Penguin

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• The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Ashamed, Ifs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.411

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• No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Roles, Lawyer, Prove

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

  Pat Morita

  Actors, Able, Karate

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

  Molly Ivins

  Dwarves, Understanding, Shallow

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.149, Vintage

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• I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

  Jillian Michaels

  Soul, Littles, Guides

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• Medicine has always been my calling.

  Mehmet Oz

  Medicine

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Stupid, People

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

  Og Mandino

  Prayer, Victory, Gold

  Og Mandino (1998). “The Greatest Gift in the World”, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Class, Ideas

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• I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Annoyed, Spokes

  "Advice to a Young Scientist". Book by Peter Medawar, p. 25, 1979.

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• The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Crush, Blessing, Tasks

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Painter, Ifs

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• Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

  Mark Batterson

  Years, Long, People

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• I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.

  Amy Alcott

  Philosophy, Distance, Golf

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• Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

  Carol Alt

  Girl, Firsts, Opinion

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

  Emma Caulfield

  Feelings, Supposed To Be, Knows

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Spring, Kids, Winning

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

  Jim Caviezel

  Ideas, Holiness, Mass

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• I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

  Len Cariou

  Careers, Theatre, Hollywood

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