Calling Quotes - Page 10

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.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

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

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

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.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

The callings of God never leave you where they find you.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

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

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Who are you calling?" (claire) Pizza hut" (shane) Loser" (claire)

I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

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