Calling Quotes - Page 29

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  Yunjin Kim

  New York, Growing Up, Events

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• My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

  Earl Lloyd

  Philosophy, Names, Ifs

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• There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Often Is, Done, World

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• Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.

  Macklemore

  Keys, Messages, Boards

  Song: Same Love

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• When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

  Christine Kane

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

  Terence Tao

  Probability Theory, Numbers, Space

  Terence Tao (2012). “Topics in Random Matrix Theory”, p.2, American Mathematical Soc.

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• You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

  Rico Love

  Eye, Doors, Kind

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

  Joseph Girzone

  Individual, Knows

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

  Harold Hamm

  Oil, Irresistible, Wanted

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• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Poverty, Wealth, Ashamed

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.101

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• There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

  Robert Breault

  Freedom, Hours, Checks

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• Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Humility, Evil, Temptation

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• Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

  Richard Leider

  Life, Moving, Passion

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Richard Leider

  People, Coaching

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.211, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Reflection, Speaks Out

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• What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

  Adolph Saphir

  Writing, People, Moses

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• The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Powerful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That's sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn't trying to suppress a vote. I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Party, Israel

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Gun, Men

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Men, Landscape Painting, He Man

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.

  Pamela Anderson

  Years, Practice, Kfc

  "Pamela Anderson takes on KFC", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2003.

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