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Quotes About Call

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.
~ Annie Dillard
Their song reminds me of a child's neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, tweet. I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.
~ Annie Dillard
He threw up the conkers into the air in his great happiness. In the tree above him they disturbed a roosting crow, which erupted from the branches with an explosive bang of its wings, then rose up above him towards the sky, its harsh, ambiguous call coming back in long, grating waves towards the earth, to be heard by those still living.
~ Sebastian Faulks
If you have any comments at all about the store, please call me at home.
~ Seth Godin
Love That Dog (INSPIRED BY WALTER DEAN MYERS) BY JACK Love that dog, like a bird loves to fly I said I love that dog like a bird loves to fly Love to call him in the morning love to call him Hey there Sky!
~ Sharon Creech
What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.
~ Sharon Salzberg
A softer call, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). A truer call, "What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).
~ Sheila Walsh
Wolin wrote that even when faced with certain defeat, all of us are called to the "awful responsibility" of the fight for justice, equality and liberty.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Simi? You got some free time? (Kat) Of course I do. You know akri on Olympus with that heifer-goddess I want to eat, but he won't let the Simi have no dinner. So why you calling me, little akra-kitty? (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You rang, Mino- well, you're not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.
~ Pope John Paul II
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.
~ John Fante
the call to faithfulness is a call I can answer. Faithful to follow, faithful to confess, faithful to obey, faithful to repent, faithful to believe, faithful to pray and seek God—all these are the requirements of faithfulness. All of them are doable and are, in fact, my responsibility and my joy, having been the unexpected recipient of so great a mercy.
~ John Fischer
She's very good," he said to Horace. "Will has taught her well." "You're all very good," Horace said. "I can never see any of you once you start sneaking around." "Sneaking around?" said Gilan in a hurt voice. "We prefer to call it 'unseen movement.'" "Call it what you like," Horace said. "To me it's sneaking around.
~ John Flanagan
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
~ John Green
Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
~ John Harrington
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
~ John Harrington
I should not dare to call my soul my own.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anchorage, which is about the stupidest thing you ever could get to naming a harbor. I mean, why not just call it Harbor, like it was the only one ever?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle