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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• 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
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• 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
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• 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
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Book

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• 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
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• 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
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

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

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Time
  • Politicians
  • Promises

• 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
  • God
  • 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
  • Crazy
  • Find

• 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
  • Work
  • 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
  • Game
  • Want

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Crush

• 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
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science

• 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
  • Friend
  • Moral
  • Stupid

• If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Money
  • Faith

• Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Women
  • Strong

• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind

• Go ahead, marry her. Don't marry her, man. How do you know where she's been? Huh! How do you know she's not the biggest fucking whore to ever walk this fucking town, man? I went with this one girl, she was such a fucking tramp, I had to double park my dick on her ass and wait an hour to get in. It's unfuckingbelievable, I'm telling ya.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • She
  • Girl

• You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • People
  • Complaining

• As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Lying

• I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Kids

• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• If it did end up in a tie, it has been phenomenal golf. It could happen. If it did, so be it.

  

  Gary Player
  • Golf
  • Phenomenal

• 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