John Calvin Quotes

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

John Calvin

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• Desire
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• It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Understand

• With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Books
  • Will
  • Talk

• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Play

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Think
  • Me

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Teenager
  • Rebellious

• I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Always

• Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Love
  • Romantic

• My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Woman

• A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Recognize

• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Day

• We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Lot

• We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Art

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Remember

• With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Work
  • Women
  • Game

• Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

  

  John Calvin
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Desire