Calling Quotes

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.

We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

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

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.