John Calvin Quotes

The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

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• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Hell
  • Go

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Singing
  • Guitar
  • Kitchen

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Reading

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Thoughts
  • Silence

• I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

  

  Aminatta Forna

• I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Character

• Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.

  

  J. Cole
  • Long
  • Real
  • Experience

• As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

  

  James Packer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Important
  • Fun

• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Joy
  • Beauty
  • Whatever

• The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

  

  John Calvin
  • Joy
  • Cross
  • Oppressed