The Call Quotes

#1. The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back 'What?

J.D. Salinger

#2. After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching, I have heard the call. Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States. I am doing it!

Stephen Colbert

#3. What happened there was they were moving the chains and we had the call made. We were really trying to get two plays if we could have rather than use the timeout thereafter.

Les Miles

#4. Andrew put a finger to the underside of Neil's chin and forced Neil's head up until they were looking at each other. "On that day you're not going to run. You're going to think about what I promised you and you're going to make the call. Tell me you understand." Neil's

Nora Sakavic

#5. The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

Rod Dreher

#6. Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.

Chloe Thurlow

#7. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.

Joss Stirling

#8. He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

Dante Alighieri

#9. Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

Arthur Scargill

#10. The call of repentance is for the righteous and the unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.

Jonathan Cahn

#11. Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

Glen Hirshberg

#12. He will hear this voice in uneasy dreams for the rest of his life, never quite remembering what he has dreamed, only knowing that the dreams leave him feeling ill somehow - walking restlessly, straightening pictures in loveless rooms, listening to the call to muzzein in alien town squares.

Stephen King

#13. God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Oswald Chambers

#14. You can only ignore the call so many times before you know it's time to go.
Life is spreading her legs for me.
I'm going in.

Karina Halle

#15. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death

Cormac McCarthy

#16. But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death's cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master -
The Call to new Heights.

Jessica Coupe

#17. You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but ... um ... no.

Hal Sparks

#18. The call to "take the land" ... is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of God territory. It is the will of the Eternal God being done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Ken Baker

#19. But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#20. We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

#21. Dr. Dunbar would never consider not answering the call of duty.

Larry Watson

#22. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#23. The website increases my excitement when I read, "Hark, the pies are calling!" My excitement is short-lived, however. I read the page again and realize that it is "pipes" that are calling, not "pies" as I had hoped. I am disappointed. I personally react better to the call of pies.

Aefa Mulholland

#24. A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

Eugene Ionesco

#25. Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.

Brian Goldman

#26. Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

George W. Bush

#27. Trust.
Flipping through his contacts, he brought up the one he needed. The only person he could trust with this. Trust with his wife. He swiped to place the call and prayed he was making the right choice.

Jennifer Kacey

#28. God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience ... whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed ... It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

George Hodges

#29. That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

Charline Labonte

#30. I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#31. It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the call comes back. We are alone
and not alone.

Natalie Goldberg

#32. To her surprise, Jilly appeared to have handed over the telephone and a moment
later Taka ended the call. No, maybe it shouldn't surprise her. Jilly would have resisted bullying, but Taka's calm control was very ... seductive.

Anne Stuart

#33. The call of sedona

Ilchi Lee

#34. I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

#35. When I first got the call from my manager asking if I'd ever heard of Jesse Owens, I recognized the name, looked him up, and was blown away by his story.

Stephan James

#36. At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

Rumi

#37. Whistle a birdcall. The mockingjay cocks its head and whistles the call right back at me. Then, to my surprise, Pollux whistles a few notes of his own. The bird answers him immediately.

Suzanne Collins

#38. Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#39. When we gather, we are responding to a call to worship; that call is an echo and renewal of the call of creation to be God's image bearers for the world, and we fulfill the mission of being God's image bearers by undertaking the work of culture making.

James K.A. Smith

#40. Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

#41. Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#42. When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

Swami Vivekananda

#43. From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Henri Nouwen

#44. I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond.

Joe Haldeman

#45. My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Toby Young

#46. We are not called to pray independently, by our merits. If we were expected to do so, there would be reason for anxiety and despair. But the call to prayer, by God's grace, is to pray in dependency on the Holy Spirit.

James W. Beeke

#47. I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice.

"Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

Sarah Nicolas

#48. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Henry Ward Beecher

#49. It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Robert Louis Stevenson

#50. What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

Trent Reznor

#51. And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it

Dalia Sofer

#52. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

#53. History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Brad Meltzer

#54. Nick was giving me the same look. And this time,instead of being taken aback or feeling squicky about it,my heart raced and my face grew hot. My body's response to the call of Nick.

Jennifer Echols

#55. There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.

Walter Camp

#56. 'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Lucas Till

#57. People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

Michael Scott

#58. I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

Hailee Steinfeld

#59. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

Abraham Lincoln

#60. When we look at what we have to offer - our skills, gifts, and desires - before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?

Jeff Goins

#61. I won't divulge the details, but there's a way to call somebody's phone and have whatever number you want appear on the caller I.D. so that the call you're making appears to be coming from someone else.

Joshua Malina

#62. Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.

Philippa Gregory

#63. Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

Barbara Kingsolver

#64. I have always been taught ... that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.

Harold Bell Wright

#65. Walk with an open heart, and you will hear the call. You will see your task shining before you, like a star.

Rachel Hartman

#66. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.

Marion Woodman

#67. While the point of Christianity is not first to make society a better place, the call to do that is an implication of the gospel simply because the gospel sends us into the world to serve in love.

Matt Perman

#68. What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

Karan Bajaj

#69. People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.

Guillermo Del Toro

#70. The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#71. A two thousand years old culture is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of Islam. Cheegha, The Call is a lone voice against the threat to the tribal way of life, the ways of the fathers.

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#72. Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon ...

Brandon Sanderson

#73. You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell."
For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Pat Conroy

#74. Everyone is called, everyone is sent out ... The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

Pope Francis

#75. When you hear the call to happiness, it is your responsibility to answer it.

Britt Reints

#76. So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.

Emily St. John Mandel

#77. I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That was wild, because I was crying in Home Depot, and people were looking at me funny.

Charlie Worsham

#78. Let us rise to the call. It is a call to call. An ability to respond to, and a needful duty to solemnly hold high

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#79. The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#80. Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.

Edward Kennedy

#81. God did not direct His call to Isaiah - Isaiah overheard God saying, " ... who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Oswald Chambers

#82. The call to protect life - and not merely life but another's identity; it is perhaps not too much to say another's soul - was obvious in its sacredness.

Paul Kalanithi

#83. My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Walt Whitman

#84. We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

Michael Meade

#85. Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Nicole Richie

#86. When your destiny is calling, answer The call.

Jeanette Coron

#87. Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Kenneth Grahame

#88. I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

Nick Jonas

#89. I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John ... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#90. Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

Rumi

#91. The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

Henry B. Eyring

#92. Yeah,Livie?"
"How do you figure out the right way to live your life?" There's a long pause. So long that I check the screen of my cell phone to see if the call is still connected.
"Trial and error, Livie. That's the only way that I know of.

K.A. Tucker

#93. One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty

Zadie Smith

#94. Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

#95. The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

Noam Chomsky

#96. I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#97. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Henrik Ibsen

#98. The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#99. Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

Winkie Pratney

#100. People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Marsha Norman