John Calvin Quotes

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Strong
  • Famous
  • Healing

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Audience

• Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Company
  • Started
  • Then

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Art
  • Together

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• It always seems impossible until it's done.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Done

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Giving
  • Mountain
  • Sorrow

• My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

  

  Michael Madigan
  • Ability
  • Ought
  • Based

• Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

  

  John Calvin
  • Integrity
  • Conscience
  • Protectors