Quotes about call (9651 quotes, page 97)

“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, March 2022
Source: Why Biden and the White House keep talking about World War III (March 17, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/why-biden-white-house-keep-talking-about-world-war-iii/

War , World , Training , Idea

“The new "humour", if you can call it that, is pure malicious gossip. Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra (1994)

“Greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity

Personality , Stupidity

“Then there is the man with a conscience, who fights single-handedly against heavy odds in situations that call for a decision.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), Who Stands Fast?

Decision , Fight

“There is no doubt missionary work is not easy and it faces no few problems and challenges, old and new. But one this is certain: if the Lord calls us to such a demanding task it is because He will not fail to supply us with the means to achieve it.”

Crescenzio Sepe (1943) Italian Catholic cardinal

Problem

“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)

“We are bound to encounter many failures, difficulties, pains, trials, temptations and disappointments. Whatever it is, we are called to be courageous, striving continuously because Jesus is with us always. He will never abandon us.”

John Wong Soo Kau (1968) Malaysian Archbishop

Archbishop John: True Happiness Is in Serving and Giving, Not Wealth https://www.borneotoday.net/archbishop-john-true-happiness-is-in-serving-and-giving-not-wealth/ (2018)

Courage , Pain , Disappointment , Failure

“Lord of Medina, listen to my calling,
My hopes are directed to you,
I do not think of any other helper.”

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690–1751) Sufi writer

Hope , Thinking

“Prince of Medina, listen to my calling-
The journey is under your protection.
You lead the travelers to the other shore.”

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690–1751) Sufi writer

Travel

“Forty million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
Those of us who make a mark use someone else's blood.
Our western stain won't wash away; it won't vanish in the flood.”

Kevin Devine (1979) Songwriter and musician

" The Burning City Smoking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YmL6Fc3K4," Put Your Ghost to Rest (2006)

Home

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

World , Thinking

“The social situation at the time of Jesus was more similar to ours today. We are called to respond and act as Jesus responded and acted in his time. It is hard and tough I know. However there is no option other than to have the same mind as in Jesus in order to follow him.”

Nazarene Soosai (1963)

Religiosity Should Cross the Borders and Boundaries http://lightoftruth.in/coverstory/religiosity-cross-borders-boundaries/ (15 July 2017)

Time

“We must come to see that God is not so much the cause of moral obligation or the sanction of duty as the very substance of Good. Then what we call the moral proof brings us in one leap to the true God, revealing himself as God of Charity.”

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 24

God

“[D]oes not the mutual love of two beings complete them both, and call forth in each of them higher and more irreducible qualities? That is, in proportion as this love tends the more to true unity, because it is more spiritualized, so are these qualities more fully, more strictly personal.”

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Source: Catholicism (1938), Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 179

Personality , Love

“Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Mark II: 13–22, p. 31
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

God , Wedding , World

“Constantly wrestle with your thought, and whenever it wanders call it back to you.”

John Climacus book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

4:92
The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“There’s a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You’re vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you’re vulnerable on the issue of race.”

Carol Moseley Braun (1947) American politician and lawyer

The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court https://www.vox.com/23015036/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-history (Apr 7, 2022)

Color , Women

“Africa is not only on the receiving end. Africa can give a lot to the rest of the world. We are called to work for this to happen.”

Giuseppe Franzelli (1942) Italian priest

Ethiopia-Eritrea peace talks ‘providential’ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-07/ethiopia-eritrea-peace-talks-franzelli.html (17 July 2018)

World

“Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on.”

Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

Question

“People under assault, and hopelessly overmatched, often do the opposite of what propriety might suggest: they dig in when they ought to accommodate. We call this behavior “siege mentality.””

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Source: Full House (1996), Chapter 14, “The Power of the Modal Bacter” (p. 213)

People , Behavior

“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

“We are called to be witnesses to Jesus; if we are witnesses we are missionaries. To be witnesses we must learn to live with Christ who is always with us.”

Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez (1936–2021) Spanish priest (1936-2021)

“Month of the Bible ” in Latin America helps Catholics become more familiar with the Word of God in order to be true witnesses to Christ for the world (14 September 2006) Fides News Agency http://www.fides.org/en/news/8049-AMERICA_Month_of_the_Bible_in_Latin_America_helps_Catholics_become_more_familiar_with_the_Word_of_God_in_order_to_be_true_witnesses_to_Christ_for_the_world

Learning , Christ

“Sensing the approaching danger, the snail flees. But in a world of snail paces, the conch is something of a Ferrari. It calls for desperate measures. Exhausted by the effort of its last-ditch attempt, the tulip snail is slowly... gunned... down.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"Tidal Seas"
Blue Planet (2001)

Sense , World , Effort

“No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

Truth , Training , Life

“Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.”

Thomas A. Bailey (1902–1983) American historian

Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969), p. 10

Thinking

“The regime’s brutality and repression of the Syrian people, who have called for freedom and a representative government, not only endangers the Syrian people themselves, but also generates instability throughout the region.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Actions of the Government of Syria https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/09/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-and-the-president-of-the-senate-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-actions-of-the-government-of-syria-2/
2022, May 2022

Freedom , People

“Known of the respectability on the part of everyone. I've always been called the villain of reality because unfortunately I'm one of the few real ones. When I think of something, I expose it, regardless of whether it may later please the public.”

Soleil Sorge (1994) American naturalized Italian model, television presenter, television personality and commentator

Original: (it) Noto del perbenismo da parte di tutti quanti. Io sono sempre stata definita la cattiva del reality perché purtroppo sono una delle poche vere. Quando penso una cosa la espongo, a prescindere che possa poi piacere al pubblico.
Source: Frasi di Soleil Sorge https://aforismi.meglio.it/aforismi-di.htm?n=Soleil+Sorge, aforismi.meglio.it.

Reality , Thinking , Parting

“By being so far educated beyond his capacity is he unable to learn within himself from nature? Divorced as he is from her, who and what can now be his? Does the so-called free man of democracy merely exploit his sovereignity?”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Democracy , Learning , Nature , Education

“Almost all our so-called "modern" is not yet new. It is merely novel by imitation or indirection; or pretense by imported picture.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“On the Death of Jim Larkin

Not with public words now can his greatness
Be told to the children, for he was more
Than a labour-agitating orator —
The flashing flaming sword merely bore witness
To the coming of the dawn. ‘Awake and look!
The flowers are growing for you, and wonderful trees,
And beyond are not the serf’s grey docks, but seas —
Excitement out of the creator’s poetry book.

When the Full Moon’s in the River the ghost of bread
Must not haunt all your weary wanderings home.
The ships that were dark galleys can become
Pine forests under the winter’s starry plough
And the brown gantries will be the lifted hand
Of man the dreamer whom the gods endow.’

And thus I hear Jim Larkin shout above
The crowd who wanted him to turn aside
From Reality coming to free them. Terrified
They hid in the clouds of dope and would not move.
They ate the opium of the murderer’s story
In the Sunday newspapers; they stood to stare
Not at a blackbird, but at a millionaire
Whose horses ran for serfdom’s greater glory.

And Tyranny trampled them in Dublin’s gutter,
Until Larkin came along and cried
The call of Freedom and the call of Pride,
And Slavery crept to its hands and knees,
And Nineteen Thirteen cheered from out the utter
Degradation of their miseries.”

Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) poet

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND1NCf1ZRFM

Sea , Death , God , Children

“Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Friendship , Personality

“Modern man has much to learn from the people he calls 'savages.'”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Reflections (1981)
Context: The pygmies are one of the most cultured peoples on the face of the earth. They live a wonderful life, a life of purity. Not only are they busy and productive, they're happy and healthy as well. If we puny Americans had to live under their conditions, we'd perish in a day. Modern man has much to learn from the people he calls 'savages.' Before we are down to the last blade of grass it would be wise to study the life of the Pygmies. The secret of our own survival rests with them, the people who know how to make the most out of very little and find complete happiness with the bare essentials.

People , Learning

“You will be called smart if you only do good for them”

Josephs Quartzy (1999) Tanzanian actor

Source: Philosophies from an old Journal

“Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went —
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.

But no, I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5
General sources

Star , Music

“Surrealism is only trying to rejoin the most durable traditions of mankind. Among the primitive peoples art always goes beyond what is conventionally and arbitrarily called the 'real.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

The natives of the Northwest Pacific coast, the Pueblos, New Guinea, New Ireland, the Marquesas, among others, have made 'objets' [in the Collections of Max Ernst, C. Levy-Strauss, Andre Breton, Pierre Matisse, Carlbach, Segredakis] which Surrealists particularly appreciate.
Quote of 1942, in the introduction of the Catalog 'First papers of surrealism: hanging by André Breton, his twine Marcel Duchamp'; exhibition at the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Inc., New York, Oct. 14-Nov. 7, 1942
after 1930

People , Art

“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)

Teachers , Science , Business , Art

“If people would understand that what we are calling mental illness is really just adaptive strategies for mitigating unsafety, it would completely change the approach we take with regards to mental illness.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Understanding , People , Change

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Fear , Nature , Feeling

“Maybe your path is harder because your calling is higher.”

Unknown author

“I spoke the other day to the art historian Vanni Scheiwiler who publishes in Milan. But Signor Scheiwiler is pessimistic; he says that under the influence of the new conformism the city, after all the cultural centre of Italy, has been undergoing a decline in intellectual vitality. Anyone who comes up with something that does not fit in with the line is promptly put down by being called a Fascist. The word Fascist is reported so often that one wonders whether it hasn’t lost all meaning! This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: “The fascism of tomorrow will never say ‘I am Facism’. It will say: ‘I am anti-Facism’.””

Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) Italian author and politician

Source: https://books.google.de/books?id=CPdKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 PT250 books.google
Source: François Bondy: Italian Censorship (European Notebook). Encounter Band 47, No. 2 (1976) August, p. 51 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=iS0dAQAAMAAJ&q=silone; Reprint in: European Notebooks 1954-1985, Routledge, New York 2017,

Art

“Take my hand and take me far away. Away from trouble, bad thoughts and difficulties. Take me with you, just you and me, into a world called happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Prendi la mia mano e portami lontano. Lontano dai guai, dai cattivi pensieri e dalle difficoltà. Portami con te, solo io e te, in un mondo chiamato felicità.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness , World

“Freedom given in the name of love gives humans a choice according to their self-awareness. Commitment is born not because of compulsion, but because of the call of the heart. When the time comes, he will bind himself with all his will and he will be ours forever.”

Titon Rahmawan

Freedom , Time , Heart , Love

“Love should not be built on compulsion, but on the freedom to answer the call of the heart. Love should give us the freedom to choose, bind ourselves to a commitment and carry it out with full awareness and sincerity.”

Titon Rahmawan

Freedom , Heart , Sincerity , Love

“Love is generally romantic only in the beginning, and it doesn't last forever. Love slowly falls into a dull routine and some even lose the romance that once made love feel beautiful. But couples who can maintain the romance are generally called by the cause of sincere love, sincere sacrifice and sincere appreciation and hope for their partner's happiness.”

Titon Rahmawan

Happiness , Sincerity , Beauty , Hope

“We are too often influenced by other people's opinions. We worry too much about what others think of us. We feel called to satisfy other people's expectations, when we know that's definitely not the kind of life we want to live.”

Titon Rahmawan

People , Thinking , Life , Feeling

“God talks to you through your soul, not through your mind. And yes, you can learn to tell the difference. This is called discernment. Be judicious. Give everything the “tummy test.” Your stomach will know when something is true. Ever notice that? The tummy knows what the mind can only wonder about.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

God , Soul , Learning

“We mustn't be afraid of being called crazy, weird, strange…because, those are all the geniuses anyway.”

Ralph Smart

“Others may call it excessive, but I say it's not enough.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“What is this nonsense? We're not here at the moment. At least, we don't expect to be. Trying to get out of what people think of themselves. All this futility. The earth we walk on is slowly burning.

Is that the kind of statement you want to write? You shout? Will it end up in vain? The rebellion of desire. There is no sanctity or half-truth.

All that nonsense is fake. The hatred that people cultivate from their own disbelief. A conflict of the soul, an inner struggle, or whatever you want to call it. Where will they go? After years and centuries of waiting. Will we find our way or will we forever be lost?

For too long we have slept in the illusion of this madness. This rage. Things we don't believe to be true. Everyone looking for their own truth. Ignorant and indifferent to each other.

Do we feel lucky with our ignorance? With all our naivety? Accepting everything without being able to fight back? Have we been blinded by pseudo-reality, which does not touch our very essence?

What kind of truth are we still debating? What authenticity are we still looking for? Those of you who feel poor, who are still confined by suffering. Arise, live, lift your own burdens! If you have not been able to lighten the burden of others.”

Titon Rahmawan

Madness , Indifference , People , Truth

“There are a few people at our side who, despite the intensity of a feeling, manage to have lucidity. People who help us to move forward, giving us the strength we need to close doors that have remained open, doors that for too long have continued to let in expectations and hopes, fears and disappointments. These people can be called true friends.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ci sono alcune persone al nostro fianco che, nonostante l'intensità di un sentimento, riescono ad avere lucidità. Persone che ci aiutano ad andare avanti, dandoci la forza di cui abbiamo bisogno per chiudere porte che sono rimaste aperte, porte che per troppo tempo hanno continuato a far entrare aspettative e speranze, paure e delusioni. Queste persone possono essere chiamate vere amiche.
Source: prevale.net

People , Fear , Hope , Help

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“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

History , Truth , Literature , Science

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