Calling Quotes

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. (Emil Cioran)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. View quote
James Baldwin
If we discovered that we had only 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. View quote
Christopher Morley
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. View quote
Alan Watts
The mountains are calling and I must go. View quote
John Muir
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. View quote
Ken Thompson
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowled. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
E. O. Wilson
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. (George Santayana)
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. View quote
Octavia Butler
There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. View quote
Walter Reuther
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. View quote
Morgan Freeman
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. View quote
Lysander Spooner
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. View quote
Milan Kundera
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever. View quote
Christine Keeler
I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it. View quote
Corin Nemec
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. View quote
Ed Markey
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. (Maya Lin)
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. View quote
Richard Attenborough
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. View quote
Sally Schneider
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute. View quote
Joe Frazier
Symons ... remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited-long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms-what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling. View quote
Alain de Botton