Top 1200 Higher Calling Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

I check Trump every time he says something crazy. I told him to stop calling Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas.'

I'm calling for an end to the investigations about President Trump's campaign colluding with the Russians. There's been no evidence of it. I don't think that should continue.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

Part of calling ourselves Live Nation was about starting to shift the way we think, to be first and foremost fan-focused.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

I am overwhelmed with the love and affection of the people. Girls have written letters calling me their inspiration, which has touched my heart.

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

When Durant was in college, I predicted on 'First Take' he would lead the NBA in scoring and began calling him my favorite player.

Like so many others, my military career was anchored by a calling to give back to a country that had given me so much.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

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.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.

Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.

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.

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.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.