Calling Quotes

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Dog, Call, Four

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Dog, Call, Five

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 who have ever lived.
Will Smith

Greatest, Reason, Here

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

Father, Him, After

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
Steve Jobs

Today, Here, Three

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Thinking, Night, Problem

The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Robert Kennedy

Him, Find, Shall

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
Barack Obama

Change, Work, Sometimes

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

Romantic, Someone, Name

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone

Leadership, Growth, Highest

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Billy Graham

Help, Problem, Poor

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

Knowledge, Ugly, Side

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz

Texas, Iraq, Taxi

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther

Men, Help, Done

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
Demetri Martin

Start, Getting, Letters

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg

Girl, Enough, Her

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon

Religion, God, Fear

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, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Human, Start

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Greatly, Pursued

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Morgan Freeman

Black, Stop, Ask

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley

Wanted, Loved, Left

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Jerry Saltz

Great, Past, Give

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.
Paul Ryan

Children, Give, America

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Clara Schumann

Life, Health, End

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. Cioran

End, Police, Begin

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates

Good, Prayer, While

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
Tori Amos

Learn, Journey, Fine

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Age, Time

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