Calling quotes
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"You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry."
"I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling."
"A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions."
"There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly."
"I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money."
"The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed."
"They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname."
"What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?"
"Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion."
"Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!"
"I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it."
"The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind."
"When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naiveté is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up."
"Writing is a calling, not a choice."
"The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament."
"I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way."
"I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible."
"I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California."
"I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them."
"There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations."
