Quotes with calling

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  • Alain de Botton In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Robert Peel In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barack Obama Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • George Santayana The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Dedman The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Hahnemann The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Brother Lawrence The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
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  • Arthur Scargill The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Barack Obama We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
    New Hampshire Primary Night (8 Jan. 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Anita Hill Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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