Top 1200 Higher Calling Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm not the one calling Trumpists the equivalent of a cult. The Drive-Bys, some of them do, as a means of not having to deal with you seriously.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?

We say it all the time: the leftist media is inciting violence and hate by calling everybody a racist and a white supremacist.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

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

When a top club comes calling, who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for.

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

There is no life higher than the grasstops

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women.

Books are men of higher stature.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.

My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.

There's no God higher than truth.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

I'm proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals.

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Higher, faster, longer - that is my motto.

The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar) Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

The more noise, the higher I get.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

There is nothing higher than reason.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

I think my family sees me playing a pastor on TV and thinks that's a way of saying I have the calling, too.

There is no god higher than truth.