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.

And as I fall to fuddled sleep I hear youth crying, as Harry Kemp heard it: “I heard Youth calling in the night: ‘Gone is my former world-delight; For there is naught my feet may stay; The morn suffuses into day, It dare not stand a moment still But must the world with light fulfil. More evanescent than the rose My sudden rainbow comes and goes, Plunging bright ends across the sky – Yea, I am Youth because I die!

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one’s resources. Andrew Carnegie

A live-in domestic worker: “You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”

A young mark twain on the make: “I can’t turn in inkstand into Aladdin’s lamp.”

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it’s everything.

I’m calling all my lovelies ‘Cause I can’t get a hold of you

Keep me up ’til the sun is high ‘Til the birds start calling my name I’m addicted and I don’t know why Guess I’ve always been this way

Don’t call me buddy, pal or sweetheart.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

I only wear clothes because I can’t walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The person who stops studying merely because they have finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what their calling.

I feel that my calling goes above basketball.