Calling Quotes - Page 30

• University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

  Francis Cornford

  Book, Government, Purpose

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• I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

  Gray Davis

  California, Division, Chaos

  "Gray Davis, conciliatory in defeat, accepts the people's verdict". www.cnn.com. October 8, 2003.

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• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Spiritual, Art, Doing Your Own Thing

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• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Space, People

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• A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

  John Ashcroft

  Civilization, America, Our World

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• Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ's return. The world is not ready yet. And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life. Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end.

  Jeff Bryant

  Jesus, Growth, Dying

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.

  Will Rogers

  People, Ems, Politics

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• There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness

  Sark

  Garbage Disposal, Issues, Names

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• There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Earth, Authenticity

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• Oh, SCULLION? You’re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?

  Thalia

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• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Home, Heart, Destiny

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• In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Offering, Doors

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• When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Dream, Determination

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• Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Persons

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• The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Technology, Understanding, Used

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• It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

  Henry Cloud

  Scary, Guilt, Realizing

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• I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.

  John Wimber

  Believe, Healing, People

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• Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

  Luci Shaw

  Mystery, States, Seems

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• Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Good Friend, Land

  "Bob Dylan Unleashed". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

  Michelle Obama

  Knowing, Names, Mind

  Tuskegee University Commencement Address, delivered 09 May 2015, Tuskegee, Alabama

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• There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Differences, People

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• I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Adventure, Fire

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• Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Retirement, Women, Flower

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.81

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