#calling

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#additional #again #against #amendment #calling

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair! ↗

— Katie Couric

#announce #blow #calling #could #going

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters? ↗

— Storm Jameson

#calling #do you know #himself #know #learn

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#calling #calling card #card #chef #display

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#identity #leisure #technology #work #art

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#change #destiny #greater-calling #helping-people #life

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#calling #cease #come #effort #environmentalist

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#cause #destiny #discovering-your-calling #faith-in-god #flaws

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destination #destiny #faith #faith-in-yourself #find-yourself