John Calvin Quotes

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

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• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Different
  • Children

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Powerful
  • Poverty
  • Company

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• Say something personal, not from a publicist.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Something
  • Say
  • Personal

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• Shopping turns me off.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Me
  • Shopping
  • Off

• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Editing

• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Long
  • Free

• After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Question
  • King
  • Judge

• I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

  

  George W. Crane
  • Bible
  • Books
  • Psychology

• Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

  

  Benjamin Whichcote
  • Good
  • Evil

• When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but had to go to junior college first to get my GPA up. I did a half-year of junior college, then dropped out and had my daughter. College was always an opportunity to go back. But she, my daughter, was my support. I gave up everything for her.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Up
  • She
  • Opportunity

• It's just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don't get upset over bad shots or anything like that.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Game

• The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

  

  John Calvin
  • Church
  • King
  • Bible