John Calvin Quotes

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

John Calvin

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Up
  • You
  • Food

• I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Play
  • Fashion
  • Like

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
  • Hoard

• If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Money
  • Smart
  • Kiss

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Political

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Song
  • Creative

• 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

• Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • High
  • Simple
  • Mountain

• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Rhythm
  • Instrument
  • Moves

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy

• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Feeling

• I want to have my own line and collection.

  

  Christian Siriano

• The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Texas
  • Jeans
  • Womb

• I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

  

  Cory Booker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Nation
  • Conviction