Calling Quotes
1706 quotes by 1326 authors
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One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked…
— Richard Ford
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You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to…
— Rob Sheffield
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Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!
— Rick Riordan
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless.…
— Anais Nin
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We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
— Amy Hempel
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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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It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it…
— David Sedaris
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No. I wanted to tell you that I was proud of you." Clary slewed around to look at her mother. "You were?" Jocelyn nodded. "Of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. "Is…
— Markus Zusak
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(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.
— Raymond Chandler
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Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist…
— Milan Kundera
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Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means...…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him…
— Sonya Sones
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In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used…
— John Green
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