Calling Quotes

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
Emma Caulfield

Feeling, While, Missed

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Randy Bachman

Success, Work, Sudden

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!
Chris Colfer

Morning, School, Saying

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland

Today, Crisis, Security

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Asa Gray

Else, Anyone, Profession

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.
Hosni Mubarak

Change, Future, Proud

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.
Louis Stokes

House, Couple, Committee

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.
John Spratt

Time, Money, Children

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.
Sheila Jackson Lee

Vision, Support, Moon

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.
Barry Zito

Family, Father, Big

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Michael Moriarty

Education, Acting, Theater

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
Pat Morita

Good, Able, Act

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.
Bernard Goldberg

Time, Mean, Everybody

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Trust, Book, Same

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?
Lisa Gardner

Work, Women, Men

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.
Jillian Michaels

Life, Through, Find

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
Janet McTeer

Age, Women, Wonderful

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.
Franka Potente

Love, Work, Good

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.
Stacie Orrico

Friends, Christian, Weird

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.
Jason Newsted

Time, Good, Long

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
Gordon Gee

Education, Keep, Dream

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
Donald G. Mitchell

Hope, Moment, Memories

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.
Billy Ray Cyrus

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
Storm Jameson

Women, Men, Successful

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles

Business, Mother, Father

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville

God, Made, Before

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
James Green Somerville

God, Point, Everybody

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
Roland Allen

God, Moment, Expect

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.
Reggie Lewis

Forward, Challenge, Team

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
Paulina Porizkova

True, Lost, Boyfriend

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