Calling quotes
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"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."
"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."
"The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it."
"Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me"
"Before you can live anything, in what you are calling physical manifestation - you have to have conjured it in vibrational form. You have to have imagined it before it can become a reality. Everything that you are living here in this physical body, you have imagined the essence of it before you are living it."
"Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
"...being an effective teacher is a high calling."
"We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen."
"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."
"How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance."
"The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it."
"It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God."
"Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world."
"Racing is a calling, a passion."
"We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation."
"Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."
"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
"God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are."
"Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all."
