John Calvin Quotes

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
  • Ever
  • My Own

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Hope
  • Forever
  • Acting

• No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Long
  • Age
  • Commitment

• I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Baby

• Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Forest

• A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Career
  • Single
  • Independent

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Earth

• Together - one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  

  Edward Everett Hale
  • Together
  • Success
  • Words

• If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • God
  • Women

• At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • God
  • Kind
  • Ends

• Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect and enhance public services, support those most in need, and to progress Irish Unity.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Support
  • Party
  • Progress

• We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Challenge
  • Moon

• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Building
  • Creation