Calling Quotes
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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
Renee Fleming
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
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Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.
Paul Kalanithi
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Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?
Paul Shaffer
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If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.
Dave Whelan
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How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
Dale Carnegie
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A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.
Sarah Dessen
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Germany calling! Germany Calling!
William Joyce
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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
Errol Morris
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
Molly Ivins
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
Richard Pryor
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Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
Richard Pryor
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We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
Adam Frank
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I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.
Richard Neal
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If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?
Francis Chan
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My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.
Earl Lloyd
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The Spanish press started calling me El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.
Sergio Garcia
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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
Ernest Becker
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The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.
Charles Demuth