John Calvin Quotes
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Warren Farrell -
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
Iris Apfel
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
Dan Pink -
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton -
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti -
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers -
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul -
A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
Naveen Andrews -
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven -
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden -
All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
Edie Adams
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
Barry Lam -
Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
Rachel Caine -
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
Pablo Picasso -
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
E. O. Wilson -
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin