Top 100 Quotes About Calling It
#1. The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.
George Carlin
#2. We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
Larry Constantine
#3. Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush
#4. When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.
Stephen Lang
#5. I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.
Johnny Cash
#6. They've already got a name for it, by the way. They're calling it the Flare.
James Dashner
#7. I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.
Jacquelyn Jablonski
#8. Calling it as you see it, should include yourself as well.
Tony Curl
#9. We ought to call it something,' said Banokles thoughtfully. 'We can't just keep calling it "that big bastard horse". It ought to have a name.' 'What do you suggest?' - 'Arse Face.
David Gemmell
#10. Calling it an experiment gives you permission to fail.
A. J. Jacobs
#11. To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
Roland Allen
#12. I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
Robert Adams
#14. True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.
Alberto Villoldo
#15. Law enforcement is a calling. It's about being willing to serve the public as a protector of the innocent and enforcer of the law. The law represents the codified moral beliefs of the people.
Dan Arnold
#16. 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.
Alan W. Watts
#17. Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
Plato
#18. Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families.
Michelle Obama
#19. Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home.
Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with
someone you love, I mean?
Meg Cabot
#20. if I must encode either the interface or the implementation, I choose the implementation. Calling it ShapeFactoryImp, or even the hideous CShapeFactory, is preferable to encoding the interface.
Robert C. Martin
#21. There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
Henry Rollins
#22. If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".
Bill Maher
#23. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#24. Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.
Christopher Titus
#25. I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
Neal Shusterman
#26. The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.
Rohinton Mistry
#27. He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
Ben Aaronovitch
#28. Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
Ronald Coase
#29. The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.
John Dewey
#30. Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.
Kathryn Stockett
#31. I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win.
Merit/Jonah
Chloe Neill
#32. Oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
Cecelia Ahern
#33. I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Eugene H. Peterson
#34. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it "well-roundedness," a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.
Peter Thiel
#35. When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
Charles R. Swindoll
#36. We all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.
Paulo Coelho
#37. It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
Tori Amos
#38. If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
Roger Rosenblatt
#39. Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#40. Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in Powhatan), a term that refers to a biologically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others by means of evil acts.
Paul Levy
#41. When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
Levon Helm
#42. I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.
Trent Lott
#44. There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.
Abraham Kaplan
#45. Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
Pierre Schaeffer
#46. Well, I go wherever the ring takes me. Not because I'm a gold digger or anything; it's more of a Lord of the Rings thing. This ring gives me powers. Though I'm totally going to lose it when my hair falls out and I start calling it 'my precious.
Cindi Madsen
#47. The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
Giuliano Amato
#48. All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness, and by that promise giving it
F Scott Fitzgerald
#49. I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
Nas
#50. I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Muhammad Yunus
#51. In the comfort of his embrace I lifted my mouth to his and initiated a kiss. Although calling it a kiss was like calling tyrannosaurus rex a small pet.
Blakely Bennett
#52. I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."
Eve Ensler
#53. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.
James E. Faust
#55. 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.'
Conan O'Brien
#56. Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
Conor Oberst
#57. That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.
Georg Buchner
#58. The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you're really in trouble or if you're just making excuses, calling it quits before you've reached your full potential.
Kara Richardson Whitely
#59. 'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'
Shari Sebbens
#60. I'm sort of religious, actually. God can be interpreted many ways, I think. If others were more open-minded about what god can be, instead of just calling it god and saying it works this way or that way, we'd all be in a better situation and a better place.
Max Bemis
#61. I'm learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn't observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you're calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting.
Caitlin Moran
#62. When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.
Thomas Paine
#63. Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.
Michael Hyatt
#64. Weird? One day you're normal and the next, you're walking around with a butterfly attached to your back. Then Malice in Wonderland tries to squeeze my head off, and you're calling it weird. This is beyond weird. Crazy, fantastical even, but definitely not weird.
Kimberly Spencer
#65. When we faced Mom, we saw she was addressing Max. "We get to know each other I'll get to hug you."
"Mom!" I snapped and Mom turned to me.
"I get to do it when he doesn't have a shirt on too. I'm calling it now," Mom declared.
Kristen Ashley
#66. India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
Shashi Tharoor
#67. When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.
Brian Andreas
#68. We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.
Richard Dean Anderson
#69. The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.
Rumi
#70. We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for 80 unpleasant years.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#71. Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan Chance
#72. You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?
Deb Caletti
#73. Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.
Robert Breault
#74. ... Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace could be a thousand years of darkness for generation's Viet Nam borned.
Ronald Reagan
#75. They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love.
Denis Johnson
#76. Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg
#77. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.
Paulo Coelho
#78. The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
Kenneth R. Miller
#79. You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.
Janeane Garofalo
#80. He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.
Ted Cruz
#81. IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.
Stefan Zweig
#82. Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
Jamaica Kincaid
#83. But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.
Maria McCann
#84. We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.
David Bohm
#85. God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.
John Piper
#86. The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
Arnold Bennett
#87. You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.
Leigh Bardugo
#88. People keep calling it an accident. That snake bit me on purpose. I've named it Sneaky. Sneaky had it all planned. I saw its face.
Cath Crowley
#89. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator ... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
Steve Jobs
#90. He thought of how the world organises its affairs so that civilisation every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics or wars,
Richard Flanagan
#91. New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for
your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.
Bill Maher
#92. The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.
John Hodgman
#93. Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
K.P. Yohannan
#94. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.
Paul Hawken
#95. A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and special all the time.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#96. They put money into attack, by calling it defence.
Craig Stone
#97. I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.
Andy Weir
#98. There are some weird things (such as the Trinity, transubstantiation, incarnation) that we are not meant to understand. Don't even try to understand one of these, for the attempt might destroy it. Learn how to gain fulfilment in calling it a mystery.
Richard Dawkins
#99. Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
Brian Eno
#100. [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?
Alex Kozinski
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