John Calvin Quotes
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
Quotes to Explore
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
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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.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
