John Calvin Quotes

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Lot
  • Mother`s

• Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • True
  • Dream
  • Winning

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Mistakes
  • Order
  • Here

• We had a good response from Australind/Leschenault and there appeared to be an opportunity to have a scout group in the area.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Response

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Character
  • Perception

• Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • Friends
  • Adversity

• I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Minutes

• Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

  

  Vincent Eugene Craddock
  • Brain
  • Friendship
  • Holes

• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Adversaries
  • Declaration of Independence

• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Speak
  • Silent

• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  

  George Gilder
  • Computer
  • Grows
  • Faster

• Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Nice

• I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • College
  • Half
  • Islands

• “Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Stories
  • Memory

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Energy
  • Task

• You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Uniform
  • Provided
  • Supermarket

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

  

  John Calvin
  • Task
  • Provided
  • God's Sight