John Calvin Quotes

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Where

• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Medication

• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Woman
  • English

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Cool
  • Air

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Broken

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Freedom
  • Equality
  • France

• I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Generation

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • May
  • Silence
  • Acceptance

• We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of political thinking. With the mayor and council races coming up next year, I think there's a good chance that it will.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

  

  John Calvin
  • Wisdom
  • Delivered
  • Holy Scriptures