John Calvin Quotes

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Man
  • Thanks

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Family
  • Myself

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • World
  • Beautiful

• Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Humor
  • Take
  • Sense Of Humor

• No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I am a woman above everything else.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Woman

• At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • May
  • War
  • Hope

• Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • People
  • Reason
  • Economic

• May my living be grace to those behind me.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • May
  • Grace
  • Behinds

• Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Road
  • Door

• An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Men
  • Strong

• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

  

  John Calvin
  • Sweet
  • Grace
  • Useful