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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Quote by Randy Bachman about work, things, people

I volunteered to join the Navy for 12 years. If you get your calling up papers, you did it. It's like a Police State, and don't let anyone kid you it would be different.

Quote by Sean Connery about police, state

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Quote by Jack Nicholson about sex, irony, mother

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about faith, old, olderness

But when you're out there, trying every day to improve people's lives, I don't think there's any higher calling.

Quote by George Pataki about day, people

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, objects, reality, action

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Quote by Mike Pence

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man