Calling Quotes - Page 27

• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

  Anthony Foxx

  Morning, Thinking, Long

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• In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

  Thomas Frank

  America, Tasks, Done

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• I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bernie Goldberg on Far Left Calling Tea Party 'Terrorists'". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

  Jennifer Granholm

  People, Public Service, Used

  "Madame Voldemort Is Wrong: Public Employees Are American Heroes" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

  Lisa Gardner

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

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• It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

  John Avlon

  Tyrants, Important, Remember

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• To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Moments, Should

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.71, Gideon House Books

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• I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Romance, Way, Vocation

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

  Eric Clapton

  Relationship, Hate, Problem

  Song: Promises, Album: Backless, 1978

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• Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Relationship, Mistake, Names

  Song: Walls, Album: The Way I Feel

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• 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.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Reality, Soul

  Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel

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• Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.

  Ray Davies

  America, Citizens, World

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• The wild night is calling.

  Van Morrison

  Night, Wild Nights

  Song: Wild Night

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• I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Running, Dog, Distance

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• Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

  John Wesley Harding

  House, Earth, Aloha

  Song: Elvis Has Just Left the Building

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• The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

  Tim McGraw

  Kings, Tennessee, Way

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• Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

  Roger Hodgson

  Criminals, Watches, Politics

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• Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lasts, Seven Days, Republican

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

  Colleen Houck

  Girl, Stupid, Romance

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Names, Guy

  "Paul Feig On Women: 19 Awesome Things ‘The Heat’ Director Has Said About Funny Ladies" By Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it.

  Shenae Grimes

  Mean, People, Yay

  "'90210' star defends her slender frame". People magazine interview, www.today.com. November 27, 2008.

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• These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

  Kamala Harris

  Children, Night, Phones

  "Kamala Harris: Power Prosecutor". Interview with Dana Perino, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

  Bill Keller

  Play, Cash, Littles

  "All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate". www.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

  Jennifer Young

  Heart, Recovery, Loss

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