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

• 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 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

• 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

• If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Done

• Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Miracle

• It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • May
  • Interesting

• The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • Mother
  • Christian
  • Identity

• Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

  

  Anohni

• A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

  

  Polly Berrien Berends
  • Important

• The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• The common error of us all in late Impressionism was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • God
  • Light
  • Rest

• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Heart
  • Believes

• 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