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calling answers levels
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... Chris Bohjalian
calling uncomfortable okay
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. David Sedaris
calling course developed files members prior release sealed
There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation. Louis Stokes
calling came consider education later life theater
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. Michael Moriarty
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Marianne Moore
calling fresh fruits giving kids love people start taking wondering
The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables. Janet Allen
calling hike rate reason
The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do. David Rosenberg
calling disclose elected electorate knowledge limited policy political public talk voters
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads. Jack Germond
calling race sick
We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there. Jaret Wright
irony humans built
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Catherynne M. Valente
irony moments wrong-things
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin
irony problem knows
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Diane Ackerman
irony ends form
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski
irony glory slave
Irony is the glory of slaves. Czeslaw Milosz
irony helping wonderful
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. Ann Beattie
irony authority program
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. James Patterson
irony life-is paradox
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes. John Hurt
mother children pride
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. Charles Dickens
mother determination father
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
mother children heart
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. Charles Dickens
mother sweet pain
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. Charles Dickens
mother nature garden
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind... Charles Dickens
mother nature children
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment." Charles Dickens
mother butterfly garden
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved. Charles Dickens
mother abode wells
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode. Charles Dickens
mother errors reform
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Charles Simmons
saws toilets scream
If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm? David Sedaris
saw steps
We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement. Roman Gutierrez
saws necks deer
I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer Bo Burnham
saws fans looks
Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out. Audrey Meadows
saws washington-monument catastrophe
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe. Arnold Bennett
saws holes prove-it
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it. Deborah Harkness
saws firsts actors
I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor. Dennis Hopper
saws want shoulders
If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you. Bill Murray
saws advantage
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. Carol Leifer