The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. From LearnThat.org. [Emma Goldman (1869-1940).]
Intrinsic to their vocation is an inevitable rendezvous with non-literary expectations. From Wordnik.com. [The Booker prize is just another flea circus for writers] Reference
Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, your vocation is as timely as ever, and your mission as monks is indispensable. From Wordnik.com. [More from Montecassino] Reference
My main avocation, almost a second vocation, is farming. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel L. McFadden - Autobiography] Reference
The contemplation of the pastoral vocation is changing my reading. From Wordnik.com. [Changes and Vicissitudes of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing] Reference
As writers, our vocation is to heal others and ourselves through our words. From Wordnik.com. [Take Back Your Poems « Write Anything] Reference
Did Vauban ever go to any other Ecole than that great school we call vocation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Village Rector] Reference
My vocation is 'to roam along, the world's tired denizen, with none who bless me, none whom I can bless.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Semi-Detached House] Reference
Her sense of vocation is such that you would believe the slip; some teachers, maybe, are born outstanding. From Wordnik.com. [Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer] Reference
I have tried various amusements without much success; but I am convinced now that my real vocation is for Parliament and pigs. From Wordnik.com. [The Semi-Attached Couple] Reference
When a woman can find no mischief to do, your doctrine is, that her vocation is over, and she had better go to heaven at once. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
It’s also an incredible amount of preparation, quite a demanding avocation when my vocation is already stretching me to the limit. From Wordnik.com. [What’s your secret?] Reference
"His vocation was the law, his avocation, farming.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
"My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
At present your vocation is to be a good little daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
But I feel that my vocation will be the solving of mysteries. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks] Reference
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
Nor must we restrict the idea of vocation to definite spheres of work. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Your vocation is your calling, your avocation is what you do for a living. From Wordnik.com. [Writing: Q&A #1 follow-up] Reference
You recall a vocation born and sustained by a one-on-one encounter with books. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Our vocation is the measure of our powers, and fixes the proportions of our duty. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume Third.] Reference
"Never; I follow no other than my own high vocation, which is instruction in sacred music!". From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference
"Never; I follow no other than my own high vocation, which is instruction in sacred music"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans] Reference
And he said, ` What makes a job a vocation is the service to truth and the service to freedom. '. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures] Reference
The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone; his vocation is to be a planter of plants. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
On the other hand, I am far from contending that our vocation is a business rather than a profession. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference
The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach - stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Man (1850)] Reference
"I studied to be a lawyer and I'm involved in other businesses, but my vocation is the potato," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Splendid Spuds:] Reference
So here's what I'd say about marriage as "vocation". From Wordnik.com. [Marriage and vocation] Reference
For clarity's sake, I think we should reserve the term 'vocation' for the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage and vocation] Reference
And, that's another point, I don't remember being taught to discern if my "vocation" was to work. From Wordnik.com. [The new, practicing Catholic, Kate Millet] Reference
Yet it was from heaven itself that Marie de l'Incarnation received her first "vocation" to Canada. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
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