Call Quotes

“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”
― Greg Behrendt

“I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
― Greg Behrendt

“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”
― Greg Behrendt , He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows”
― Stephen King

“Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.”
There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Destined for an Early Grave

“If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

“There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.”
― Janet Evanovich

“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. "Hey, YOU!" are the sea's exact words.
If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

“But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be.”
― Steve Goodier

“When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD”
― Holly Black, The Iron Trial

“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true name?

It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.

Ever wonder why?

Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Joy School

“Curiosity is a call from knowledge.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“When you are on the air, there is no land you need to call home.”
― Grigoris Deoudis

“...it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul...
Let good come unto the world.”
― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

“When you have developed a fear of the police, who do you call for help?”
― Steven Magee

“The police love to strangle their victims, they call it a ‘Choke Hold’.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello toxic police officer, hello 911 call for a police supervisor!”
― Steven Magee

“Service is the call of our existence...THANK YOU GOD!”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Witnessing the incompetence of the police has made me scared to call them!”
― Steven Magee

“The woman," Dillard whispered. "The woman. They say he missed that whore.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,” she said to him once. “You needn’t act like a hen.”
― Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk

“God calls you and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume - Volume I : Text, Volume II: Workbook for Students, Volume III: Manual for Teachers

“Freedom will always call men to itself regardless of the degree to which any tyrannical form of government might demand that men submit to its preferred brand of tyranny.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The call of God never includes a call to question our ability to achieve it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Through the darkness, the call of the owl invites us to reflect, to meditate, in that suspended moment where time seems to stop.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow