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"You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell.""
"That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie"
"We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons."
"NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To Extradition.'"
"For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am."
"There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity."
"Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter."
"I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead."
"Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils."
"Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns."
"Germany calling! Germany Calling!"
"When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent when Marc did, as if I could see peoples mouths moving, but I couldnt hear what they were saying. Like I'd gone deaf."
"Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris."
"Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits."
"This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool."
"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm."
"In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed."
"I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that."
"Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer."
"If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever."
