Calling Quotes - Page 7

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.

A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

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.

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.

I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.

JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.

My purpose is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out for help, whether it's in Benghazi or at the border, then we ought to be able to answer it.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.