Calling Quotes
1706 quotes by 1326 authors
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be…
— Simon Sinek
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I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small…
— Peter Singer
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
— Patti Smith
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I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people…
— Will Smith
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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man,…
— Lysander Spooner
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and…
— Emma Thompson
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying,…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
— Tim Vine
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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…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to…
— Rachel Zoe
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One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking…
— David A. Bednar
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Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
— Tucker Max
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Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness…
— Raymond Chandler
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
— Mary Oliver
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It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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