John Calvin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
-
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
-
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
-
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
-
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
-
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
-
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
-
'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.
-
You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
-
Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...
-
The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
-
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
-
And last of all comes death.
-
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
-
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
-
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
-
Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
-
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
-
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.
-
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles - and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.
-
I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.
-
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
