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“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”

Writing Reason Calling No Reason Categories

Book:The complete prose of Marianne Moore

Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore

“Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.”

Men Real Reason Calling Married Subtle Cousin My Cousin Wrong Reasons

Author:Rita Rudner

“South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.”

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.”

People Mean Soul Reason Body Together Practice Teaching Holy Calling Yoga Endeavor

Book:We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Source: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.”

Knows I Can Reason School Christian Calling Atheist Spite Nevertheless Disposition Justified Orthodoxy Atheistic Infidel Antipathy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.”

Reason Calling Mad

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.”

Looks Kind Ideas Reason Action America Walks Responsibility Power Pieces Fans Calling Moon Highest Encouragement Hardest Hey Reason Why Baggage Anything Is Possible

Author:Edward de Bono

“I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.”

World Mean Art Reason Interest Attention Economy Calling No Reason Conventions Apology Transparent Art World Vested Interests

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.”

People Feels Real Reason Helping Calling Helping Others

Author:Janet Jackson

“Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.”

People Reason Problem Social Attention Needed Calling Activism Eleanor Admirer Social Activism

Author:William A. Rusher

“I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.”

Ifs World Ideas Reason Goal Design Planets Birth Calling Fulfilling

Author:Jeremy Scott

“I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the experiment, when it's always the opposite - any "experimentation" is dictated by the material.”

People Reason Materials Calling Opposites Experiments Experimentation

Author:Steve Erickson

“It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”

People Knows Want Life Reason Positive Calling Bigger Strive Life Changing

Author:Will Smith

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”

Men Ideas Reason Used Religion Jesus Atheism Calling Weapons Mere Priests Propositions Ridicule Trinity Against Religion God Delusion Anti Atheist Abracadabra

Book:The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

“The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.”

“Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.”

Men Reason Attention Objects Calling Profession Pursuit Useless Reason Why Neglect Divides Principal Multiplicity Industrious

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”

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Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

“One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.”

Men Reason Success Attention Objects Calling Profession Pursuit Useless Reason Why Neglect Divides Principal Multitudes Why Me

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.”

Needs Important Reason Powerful Compassion Cold Calling Intuition Intellect Often Is Love And Compassion

Author:Betty Williams

“By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”

“There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.”

People World Way Made Real Reason Use Seems Certain Realizing Justice Possibility Calling Argument Weak Stress Foolish Unfair Foolishness Prudent Assignments Immunity Justice Of God

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!”

Want Reason Philosophy Shows Might Hate Becoming Calling Perfection Abstract Abstraction Realist Elevation Redeeming Unfriendly

Author:Max Stirner

“My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'”

“Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.”

Feels Believe Soul Reason Turns Existence Calling Ambition Unique Sacred Embrace Primal

Book:Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

“Discovery of purpose is a continuous activity, and revelation of it is an ongoing process... The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that is bigger than they are, a reason for living that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth. Your soul's true purpose is to be the love that you are!”

People Soul Reason Earth Moving Purpose Passion Found Process Growth Calling Activity Discovery Bigger Constant Your Soul Fortunate Revelations Ongoing True Purpose

Author:Glenda Green

“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

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Author:Vicky Beeching

“Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.”

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Author:Kari Jobe

“Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.”

Ifs Said Reason Might Able Practice Masters Industry Calling Ignorant Excellent Pace Speculation Gardener Naturalist Commendable Workmanship

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims