Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were looking for a guy in the third pairing that can be safe, solid and steady. That's Cory's calling card.

Juan Williams

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

Our campaign is designed to reach out to this 50 percent -- those who are uncomfortable calling their mortgage company.

Please keep in mind that commuters can report matters fundamental to the transit system direct to Metro Police Dispatch by calling 713-224-COPS (2677).

I think he's gotten noticed. We've had a lot of teams inquire about him. But there's a big difference between inquiring and calling up.

Toward the end of the sixth round, a lot of teams started calling and telling me they had picks left and they would like to get me if they could.

Robert Patterson

to take a deep breath, to re-examine who they are, to reconsider God's calling -- unique calling -- to a congregation to serve in a community.

Senator Kerry

Washington is broken. It's not unlike a classroom in school, where the kids have gotten unruly and nobody's calling them to order.

We didn't know if we should keep calling (the fullback trap) or not. (Winslow) came up big on a couple of fourth downs.

We didn't hear about kids going home sick after the test, or parents calling to complain, which we take as being good signs.

We had prayer with her over the phone, ... We started calling people, and we decided we needed to pray again.

Aleksandar Hemon

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

We do not understand why we, who engage in peaceful protests, are considered to be 'credible threats.' Such terminology is effectively calling us terrorists. The initial reaction is to wonder how peaceful protesters can be considered 'credible threats.' However, it is also important to consider that the Pentagon may view us as a threat to military recruitment, and therefore, some sort of threat to the country. Of course, by that flawed logic, since the majority of Americans are opposed to the war, the Pentagon can see most Americans as a 'threat to the country'.

Garrison Keillor

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

Napoleon Hill

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

Os Guinness

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

So, anyway, we made it here safe and sound, and that's all that matters. We're calling her 'Crash' now.

Michael Shermer

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Carlos Tevez

He spent the whole game calling me a 'lousy foreigner' and saying I wouldn't finish the match, ... We Argentines have to worry not only about the game but also about the refereeing.

Mike Judge

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

Coach (Jack) Easley scouted this game, and our kids were calling the plays just like (Nebraska) were. We were energized and when you play good defense it helps your offense and when you play good offense it helps your defense.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Coach was calling the plays and I was making my shots.

O. Henry

Co-division champs. That's what I'm calling it, ... I can understand why there isn't (a playoff) but, frankly, I would have liked to have had one. It would have been nice to settle the division championship.

And the officials have officials looking over their shoulder, too. So I'm sure they're calling it right down the middle.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Stu Jackson

A flagrant foul is unnecessary and excessive. And in my mind, that's what that was. It was an unnecessary play, and it was excessive in how hard he hit him. The referee did the right thing in calling a Flagrant 2.

Brett Butler

A female president - maybe they'd start calling it the Ova Office

Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Even him calling us competition, man. I can definitely live with that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

Joe Carnahan

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.