Calling Quotes - Page 17

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.

Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop.” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot.” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.

What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.