John Calvin Quotes

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

John Calvin

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I believe in music because it has the power of change.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Why
  • Reason

• Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Right
  • Someone
  • Course

• If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

  

  P. D. James
  • Children

• 'My darling one....I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• 'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'

  

  Jane Austen

• The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Why

• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

  Laurence Olivier

• I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

  

  Cole Porter
  • Moon
  • Fence
  • Fences

• Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

  

  Brea Grant
  • Strong

• Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Our pioneers lived a slightly, not a slightly, but a great deal different life to what they now have, but we are, or our society is, what our pioneers made us, of course, and we've tried to bring to the remembrance of the future generations the kind of life and the kind of people that made Australia.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Lived
  • Pioneers
  • Slightly

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Death
  • Rest