Sentence examples for have no vocation from inspiring English sources

But I have no vocation & maybe that is wrong anyway.

Had the United States showed similar indifference in the Philippines and South Korea, I suppose wise heads would still be telling us that Asians, too, have no vocation for democracy.

"We've got to rethink the equation when we're making young people, especially young people of color in their mid-20s unemployable because they have a high-level misdemeanor or felony on their record for drugs or nonviolent crime and have no vocation, education, or job skills".

He should not have chosen the profession of soldiering, because he had no vocation for making war.

By the time of the divorce, she had decided she had no vocation as a full-time academic.

Figueiredo was a military man through and through, who once conceded that he had "no vocation for politics".

Finding that he had no vocation for the priesthood, he returned to England and the theatre, making his first adult appearance on the stage in 1776.

She had become a nun only by the decision of her parents and had had no vocation for a monastic life, but in 1608 she was converted by a visiting Capuchin friar's sermon.

He contemplated going into the church to join the ranks of the clergymen whose portraits surround him, but decided he had no vocation for articulating and disseminating his beliefs.

His spoken reply is that he had "no vocation", but Dibdin then gives him a silent thought that anyone who has followed the character through 11 books is tempted to chisel in the memory as an epitaph: "But I do have a vocation... it's this stupid, meaningless, utterly compromised job that I try to do as well as I can".

She "had no vocation for wifehood or motherhood, but an urge to serve the Union .