John Calvin Quotes

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

John Calvin

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Live
  • Say
  • Lie

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • People
  • Faults
  • Other

• But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Matter
  • Down
  • Broadway

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Strong

• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

  

  James Martineau
  • Grief

• Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Life
  • Country
  • Light

• For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Light
  • Me

• Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Aspect

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Opportunity
  • Party

• It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

  

  John Calvin
  • Opportunity
  • Disposition
  • Good Name