John Calvin Quotes

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

John Calvin

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• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Time
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• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
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• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
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  • Heart

• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Love
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• I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
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  • Night

• The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Think
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• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• 'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
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• I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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• so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

  

  Alicia Witt
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• I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

  

  Andrew Luck
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• The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

  

  Bruce Sterling
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• As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.

  

  Lynsey Addario
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• The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • God
  • Law
  • Fall

• Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Single
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• Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Praying
  • Faults