#calling

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else. ↗

— Mike Judge

#calling #came #close #else #him

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#architecture #book #calling #dispute #follies

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

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Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#christ #dances #heart #i #i see

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#calling #human #humanities #make #sense

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#being #better #better future #calling #change

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

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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. ↗

— Cliff Richard

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