Best 2581 quotes in «calling quotes» category

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.

Incredible how unnecessary it [questions the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump] was, because John Lewis was articulating something that most Democrats simply aren't, calling Trump illegitimate.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. That's the God I see in Jesus of Nazareth, that's the God I see in the fourth gospel.

It is completely irresponsible, if not worse, for members of the media to be calling our press secretary a liar and worse. On Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. And in articles. That is not the way to start relationships with the press.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

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.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

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.

It's America calling the shots in everything

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.