Calling A Friend After A Long Time Quotes

Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"
Win?"
Yeah."
You okay?"
Hello?"
Win?"
Yeah."
What took you so long to answer the phone?"
Hello?"
Win?"
Who is this?"
Myron."
Myron Bolitar?"
How many other Myrons do you know?"
Myron Bolitar?"
No, Myron Rockefeller."
Something's wrong," Win said.
What?"
Terribly wrong."
What are you talking about?"
Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend."
Sorry, I forgot the time. ~ Harlan Coben

After discovering your calling, the next challenge you are faced with is how to maximize your time ~ Sunday Adelaja

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed. ~ Chris Evans

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough. ~ Catherine Friend

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement. ~ Matthew Reilly

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it. ~ Joanne Harris

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact. ~ Henry Hyde

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~ John Leonard

I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes. ~ Joyce DeWitt

After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles. ~ Louis Bayard

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. ~ Carnie Wilson

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ~ Henry Adams

Judge a man after they have made him their friend, instead of making him their friend after they have judged him. Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself. ~ Seneca.

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time. ~ Joe Biden

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend. ~ Robert Goulet

People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me! ~ Shelley Hennig

After you discover your purpose, you have to build a platform for your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after. ~ Bob Brown

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success. ~ Holt McCallany

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal. ~ Autumn De Wilde

How can long months crease into a day when something so far comes near after long. ~ Suyasha Subedi

When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time. ~ Carl Henegan

What one does to kill time is one's true calling. ~ Marty Rubin

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. ~ William J. Clinton

All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round. ~ Jean Giono

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me. ~ Sheri L. Dew

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein. ~ Condoleezza Rice

The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time. ~ James Laver

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. ~ Vera Nazarian

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer. ~ Oscar Wilde

Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now. ~ Elliot Perlman

The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe ... It's excellent training for having a boyfriend. ~ Brando Skyhorse

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks. ~ Sofia Vergara

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. ~ Mike Shinoda

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions ~ Reif Larsen

It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take this it will give you energy,' so I thought I'd try it. I didn't know what it was. It made me laugh and laugh, like crazy ... to the point that my back hurt' *he holds his hips* 'like I'd just had a baby. ~ Giorgio Armani

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. ~ Wilfrid Laurier

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ... ~ Julian Fellowes

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. ~ Alexander Pope

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. ~ Richard Ford

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. ~ Bruce Lee

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. ~ John Leguizamo

After struggling for a long time I started to live out my dreams. ~ Kevin Rudolf

I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by "Are you asleep yet?" and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life. ~ Joe Brainard

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill. ~ Chill Wills

Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night
Of Time long past:
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last -
That Time long past ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time. ~ Rand Paul

a long lost friend gone in the wind, gone for all eternity, a long lost friend ~ Chris Clark

Use your calling to convert your day ~ Sunday Adelaja

I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory. My friend's brother, and then my friend, too, though not for long enough to let his humor work its way into me, not for long enough. ~ Veronica Roth

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. ~ Haruki Murakami

Your calling multiplies you ~ Sunday Adelaja

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it. ~ Will Rogers

That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned. ~ Georg Buchner

After hours of work, they finally found an address through someone Jorge called "a friend of a friend of an enemy's enemy." By that time it was late and they all crashed for the night; ~ James Dashner

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. ~ Robert Creeley

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. ~ Arthur Brisbane

Be intentional and purposeful in your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

A road to a friend's house is never long. ~ Ann Richards

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling. ~ Jonathan Franzen

In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us. ~ Annie Lennox

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it. ~ Karl Radek

For a long time, all the way through to the end of elementary school, Beans was my only friend. Because that's how I've always been. I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know. In the end, Beans was like most people. After a while she had dozens of friends, and by fifth grade it was pretty obvious that even though she was my best friend, I wasn't hers. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me. ~ Kevin Smith

I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian. ~ Jane Fonda

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut. ~ Jane Pauley

Well, my life hasn't really changed ... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know? ~ Willow Shields

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after ~ Al Hirt

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased ~ John Steinbeck

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship. ~ John Friend

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time. ~ Johan Santana

Every time I want to give up on him, there's always something inside telling me to just give it time. ~ Natasha Friend

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ~ Bradley Chicho

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again. ~ Eleanor Estes

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. ~ Ray Bradbury

It's only when you find God that you can discover your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life. ~ Rob Sheffield

He felt more soft raindrops, saw bright-red oil against the brown mud, heard his mother calling again, but it was unclear what she was saying, was she calling him home or was it the sea? There was a world and there was him and the thread joining the two was stretching and stretching, he was trying to pull himself up that thread, he was desperately trying to haul himself back home to where his mother was calling. He tried calling to her but his mind was running out of his mouth in a long, long river towards the sea. ~ Richard Flanagan

Develop your skill around your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

I'm always sad when a gig ends. No matter how long the shoot, you become a family for the period of time you are together, and then you separate and rarely see each other for a long time after. ~ Georgina Reilly

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ~ Ovid

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.' ~ Marcia Strassman

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast. ~ Boris Kodjoe

My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I'm more cautious of how much I eat, what I'm eating, and how often. ~ Sara Ramirez

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time. ~ Geraldo Rivera

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time. ~ Sarada Devi

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago. ~ Creed Bratton

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else. ~ Simon Sinek

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried. ~ Ronda Rousey

If you continue to live in your past after coming to Jesus and accepting Him as Lord and Savior, then you are still a long way from moving forward ~ Sunday Adelaja

Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.
Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you ~ Ellen J. Barrier

and one knows,
after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken
away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of strangers,
the hard prayer inside one's own singing
is to come back, if one can, to one's own,
a world almost lost, in the exile that deepens,
when one has lived a long time alone. ~ Galway Kinnell

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ~ John Grisham

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness. ~ M. Ward