I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. " It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it?" Would I be calling you if I had?" Maybe," I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it. " Why not?" Friendship. " Try again," I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you. " Comforting. . .
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better. ' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2. "
William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling. '
When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 911. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where. . . you'll see America's hand of villainy.
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock. " He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.
Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.