Calls Quotes

#1. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Charles Marion Russell

#2. The messages pile up,
The worry knocks at
my door, louder & louder.
More calls from the therapist.
Pills that should have been
taken lie scattered across the floor.
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.

I pretend I do not see.

Darshana Suresh

#3. We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

David Platt

#4. A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Aleksandar Hemon

#6. Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

Louis L'Amour

#7. Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
Once more your Captain calls to you;
Come to his last review!

Richard Watson Gilder

#8. In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

Carter Heyward

#9. And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?

Cherise Sinclair

#10. It's not free. I gave it to you so that you'd answer my calls right away.

Lee Jin-wook

#11. Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.'
'Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.'
'Relentless sunshine,' she corrected him.

Kathleen Tessaro

#12. The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

James Otis

#13. What a country calls its vital ... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

#14. When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Mark Twain

#15. I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.

Pepe Eliaschev

#16. What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Sri Chinmoy

#17. Show me the person that calls another a fool, and i will prove the extent of his mediocrity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#18. Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

Chris Moneymaker

#19. Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Salvador Dali

#21. Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

William Zinsser

#22. The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bobby Seale

#24. But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I was Damn born out of the loins of my father in the spring of April, you claimed. Surgeon, you stood up for the month of buds and bitches like a true Kuon Kunos

Aporva Kala

#25. Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

Irving Kristol

#26. The quarterback? Wow. My mom wouldn't let me stand in the same checkout line as a high school senior. She's so lame.
She's not lame.
She thinks eighteen year old boys are dangerous. She calls them penises with hands and feet. Tell me that isn't lame.

Kristin Hannah

#27. I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.

Estelle

#28. When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Michael Douglas

#29. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.

William Shakespeare

#30. When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

Jean Genet

#31. The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Leon Trotsky

#32. This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Ben Elton

#33. The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Caleb Colton

#34. Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

John Steinbeck

#35. I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

Eleanor Mondale

#36. God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.

Craig Groeschel

#37. Everyone just calls me Emby."
"Is that your choice, or theirs?" asks the Admiral.
"Well ... theirs, mostly-but I got used to it."
"Never let anyone else name you," says the Admiral.

Neal Shusterman

#38. My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Alicia Silverstone

#39. Remember, people, study the rule sheet. Snuggle it at night, eat lunch with it, take it to the movies. It's the only way you're passing my class, Mr. Pinner calls over the bustle of students herding out the door.

Anna Banks

#40. I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

Bas Rutten

#41. The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change ... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

Jason David Frank

#42. I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

Masayoshi Son

#43. Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

Edward Hirsch

#44. Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain

Jon Stewart

#45. All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us.

Zoe Marriott

#46. Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

William Butler Yeats

#47. Full moon calls thee
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.

Frank Herbert

#48. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

Renata Tebaldi

#49. Her dark eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she stared up at me. You are a moon child. She calls to you.

Lisa Kessler

#50. I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.

Kevin Love

#51. A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

Mollie Marti

#52. I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.

Monte Irvin

#53. Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#54. Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians ... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

Matthew Arnold

#55. Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

William Styron

#56. A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Sigmund Freud

#57. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#58. So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

John R.W. Stott

#59. There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

Adyashanti

#60. Giving calls for genius.

Ovid

#61. The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#62. It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

Richard Linklater

#63. A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

Wayne Thiebaud

#64. In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Stephen Covey

#65. Thompson was inundated with fan mail and phone calls, which he said was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.

Hunter S. Thompson

#66. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi

Eric Weiner

#67. I lost so much energy in taxis, planes, hotels, phone calls and interpreters. Now, with the help from my little successes, I do everything in the same place with everyone around me. That's how a good job gets done.

Michel Ocelot

#68. Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#69. God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves.

Max Anders

#70. I'm bad at returning phone calls.

Zac Efron

#71. That calls for a witty comeback.
"Whatever," I say.

Susan Ee

#72. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.

Aristotle.

#73. Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

Clive Cussler

#74. Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

Sherry Turkle

#75. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

#76. Poetry calls into question what it means to be human

Sandra Alcosser

#77. Most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

Arthur Miller

#78. Because you are my sun. You are the light of my life and you are the voice that calls me from my dreams.
Mairin

Shari Richardson

#79. The Life of Pi' timelessly encapsulates an objectively true & real meme that God is Love and seeks out those He calls unto himself."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#80. Once I began taking calls for cable, I quickly realized that when Americans cannot watch television, all of their repressed marital rage floods the telephone lines.

Anonymous

#81. Mukesh calls me his true life partner ... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife.

Nita Ambani

#82. I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

Ivan Lendl

#83. To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.

Dillon Burroughs

#84. For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#85. Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Aeschylus

#86. The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#87. Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.

Joshua Stannard

#88. I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

Jim Cummings

#89. Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther

#90. I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.

Jonathan Tropper

#91. Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Andrew Young

#92. I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Tahyna Tozzi

#93. Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

Sylvester Stallone

#94. Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.

Justin Chon

#95. From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.

Tori Amos

#96. I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

Frank Buckles

#97. === God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out

Ikechukwu Joseph

#98. the object of all great art is beauty, and it makes us nostalgic for God. Whether we consider ourselves people of faith or not, art arouses in us what the pope calls a 'universal desire for redemption.

Ian Morgan Cron

#99. If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

Rachel Zoe

#100. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But ... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison