“It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.” CallingPoliceDislike Author:Gaspar Noe
“When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.” HelpingSoundBrainCompassionCallingEmpathyAreasAltruismDistressingActivation Author:Matthieu Ricard
“My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.” IfsRealTurnsFatherNamesSoundNumbersChildhoodSonCallingPressureStuckStaringMy SonSeventiesSyllablesToddlerDuncanJoey Author:David Bowie
“I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.” ThinkingWritingMightHappensFeltCallingCommandersMaxBeing Afraid Author:Nat Hentoff
“If President Obama wants to keep calling for protests, then that will be his legacy, one of division, rich versus poor, old versus young, black versus white, always dividing. That's what you get under President Obama.” IfsWantYoungBlackPresidentWhitePoorRichCallingLegacyProtestDivisionPresident ObamaVersusDividing Author:Sean Hannity
“I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them.” PeopleIfsWorldKindInterestingCallingRadioTalk RadioKnowledge Of The World Author:Noam Chomsky
“The head of the government ethics ought to be careful, because that person is becoming extremely political. Apparently, may have made a - publicly supported Hillary Clinton as calling out the president with information on Twitter about our disentangle - disentangling of the business over a month ago.” MayPersonsMadeGovernmentPoliticalPresidentInformationMonthsOughtBecomingCallingEthicsClintonCarefulBe Careful Author:Reince Priebus
“Incredible how unnecessary it [questions the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump] was, because John Lewis was articulating something that most Democrats simply aren't, calling Trump illegitimate.” PresidentTrumpCallingDemocratIncrediblesUnnecessaryLegitimacyArticulating Author:Jason Chaffetz
“[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."” NeedsLooksSaidCallingStandardsDataSovereigntyBrazil Author:Edward Snowden
“I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.” KnowsSelfCountryWould BeVoiceDealsCallingEuropeHarmBritainSelf Harm Author:Theresa May
“My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.” ChildrenWould BePassionCallingProfessionPursueMy Children Author:Shakira
“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.” PeopleMadeStatesDoneGovernmentActionSpeakLanguageUnitedPartyUnited StatesSacrificeCrimeSeriousDutyHeroCallingConstitutionExcuseWitnessMassiveHeroicHeroismEngagingHistoricViolationCivicsSpeaks OutCivic DutyConstitution Of The United StatesGreat SacrificeBad Actions Author:Edward Snowden
“I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.” GirlCallingRememberedIslands Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.” PeopleMeanWalksLevelsTrumpCallingTragedyBarsRadicalNraOrlando Author:Chris Murphy
“That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.” IfsI CanDifferentCountryDoneGovernmentWould BeMorningHigherPoliticianCallingLateMusicianRanDifferent PlaceHigher Calling Author:Kinky Friedman
“For me it was a calling to public service. I often tell people other than a whole lot of zeros, he and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both [with Donald Trump] have lived it.” PeopleWholeDreamBeliefCommonTrumpCallingAmerican DreamPublic Service Author:Mike Pence
“I just have a heart filled with gratitude for a wonderful family. My wife, Karen, is the love of my life, and she campaigned with me virtually every day of 130-some odd days of the campaign trail, as did our daughter, Charlotte, traveled all over the country with us. But my son, who just got married to his college sweetheart, and our youngest daughter - just am grateful for a family that has supported me in my calling to public service.” HeartCountryWifeWonderfulCollegeSonGratitudeCallingMarriedDaughterGratefulFilledMy WifeCampaignsOddMy SonTraveledTrailsPublic ServiceSweetheartOur DaughterCharlotteLove Of My LifeHeart FilledWonderful FamilyYoungest Daughter Author:Mike Pence
“Al-Qaeda, ISIS, they can't be Islamic. Islam is the religion of peace. They are bastardizing it. They are frauds. They are calling themselves Islamic and they are calling themselves Muslim, but they're not. Because Islam is as anti-terror as you and I are. Islam is the religion of peace. I'm telling you what our government's position is. The US military position.” GovernmentMilitaryPositionCallingIslamTerrorIslamicAlsFraudIsisAl QaedaUs Military Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.” PeopleNeedsNamesFocusPoliticianCallingName Calling Author:Charles Schumer
“When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.” FirstsPoliticalReligiousNovelMaterialsCallingOrganizationAskingWingsEightMailRight WingMock Author:Daniel Handler
“It is completely irresponsible, if not worse, for members of the media to be calling our press secretary a liar and worse. On Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. And in articles. That is not the way to start relationships with the press.” IfsWayMediaCallingMembersPressesLiarsArticlesElsewhereSecretaryIrresponsibleTwitter And Facebook Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.” WayKindPathCallingDeeperLife ExperienceTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“I had a calling, this is what happened, I've explained the story many times. I've had my priest on, I've had atheists on. When I explain my conversion to atheists, my personal series of events, they go, "Oh, alright."” StoriesHappenedEventsCallingSeriesAtheistConversionPriestsAlright Author:Jay Mohr
“Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.” BelieveImportantReligiousCallingMy Family Author:Florence Nightingale
“You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.” CountryMediaCallingMajorityPopulationBarackOfficialsImmigrantsIsisBans Author:Sean Hannity
“Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.” PeopleWayYoungGivenFeltCallingReporters Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.” ThinkingWorldFeelsWritingArtBookAblePainRememberJusticeGoneSadnessMissingCallingArt IsHungerEntertainmentEnjoyed Author:John Darnielle
“I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. That's the God I see in Jesus of Nazareth, that's the God I see in the fourth gospel.” ThinkingI CanJesusCallingFourthPower Of LoveNazareth Author:John Shelby Spong
“It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.” MenKindMeanDifferentEndsSometimesGuyCareersCuttingCallingGloriousThis GuySandyCaliber Author:Prince Fielder
“Well that's basically how we launched Sherwood Pictures, and with our films, we sat down and we had a long list of specific things that we were praying for God to provide, and then we would just deal with all those things in prayer first, and then when we went out and began knocking on doors and calling, it was clear that God was going before us and providing the way and sending the resources.” WayFirstsWellsLongFilmPrayerDealsClearDoorsPrayingCallingResourcesDown AndListsSatProvidingKnockingKnocking On Doors Author:Stephen Kendrick
“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.” PeopleIfsMenPoliticalPoliticsCallingRuthless Author:Robert Kennedy
“There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember.” WholeRememberSimpleConsciousnessPlayerCallingGuitarHotelSignificanceKrishnaFlutes Author:George Harrison
“When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.” FeelsDifferentSometimesStoriesMightTogetherRememberBitsProcessPiecesHeardAwarenessExampleCallingConsciousConstructionConstructsRecollectionDifferent TimesAdoptingConscious AwarenessBits And PiecesRemember Something Author:Elizabeth Loftus
“Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be.” PeopleKindMayStruggleTeacherTeachingPositionCallingWelcomeTemptationAppropriateMissionarySingle People Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.” DoeRealityPoliticalSinLordVirtueCallingBehaviorDefinitionsHomosexual Author:Lance B. Wickman
“If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen. You haven't missed anything yet. I'm just teasing you as to what's coming. Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies, so they're calling that "infertility," and it will require mandatory health insurance because of it. Yeah, I know they're not infertile but that doesn't matter; they can't have babies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMatterFactsHappensHavensBabyCallingGayTaxesConceptsFairsYeahBunchActivistTeaseNot FairInfertility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The entire Washington political class and establishment cannot see Islamic terrorism when it happens. Well, they actually do see it. They just don't want to call it that, and they don't want anybody else calling it that.” WantWellsHappensPoliticalClassCallingTerrorismIslamicEstablishmentIslamic Terrorism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media.” PartyMediaTvsCallingDemocratRadioAgendasOperaSoapSoap Operas Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.” PeopleGivingJobsTeachCallingPassionateEmployeeDiscipleApostles Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.” PeopleGovernmentRecordsReturnCitizensCallingActivityAccessOwnersIllegalImmoralUnconstitutional Author:Ryan Shapiro
“The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.” ChildrenSoulPlayCallingTrainingAdultsSubstance Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.” ThinkingWayNeedsHas BeensHappensEyeAmericaLinesDemocracyMediaTrumpCallingBallsDrawingFantasticFirmBehaveFascismFairnessTransparencyCivicsAuthoritarianism Author:Irvine Welsh
“We really are going to have to answer the cries of everyday women and men who are calling out for elected leaders to do something different. They want to be treated fairly and they need a political party who represents them.” MenWantNeedsDifferentPoliticalAnswersPartyLeaderCryCallingMen And WomenEverydayTreatedPolitical PartiesElected Leaders Author:Nina Turner
“I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.” MenWayWantMeanDoeTwoNightGuyChoicesAnswersTalkingTakenRightsImagineCallingRight NowFeministExtremesGenderRidiculousUselessActivistFlagsTwo WaysGood GuyTwo Extremes Author:Stephen Marche
“The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.” MeanSometimesNamesLeftPowerfulInternetCallingFolksDialogueVery Powerful Author:Barack Obama
“We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.” NextNamesGenerationsCallingElectionFocusedNext GenerationName Calling Author:Barack Obama
“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.” PeopleIfsNeedsFirstsWellsIdeasThreeSocialCommunityChallengesAnimalViewsPsychologyShareCallingEmptyThirdsSafetyWell BeingFulfillmentSatisfyingBouncePositive PsychologyPhysiologicalSharing Knowledge Author:Charles Koch
“People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.” PeopleFeelsCallingOffersDeeperScience Love Author:Adam Frank