John Calvin Quotes

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Today
  • Dreams
  • Questions

• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Misery

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Human
  • Innocent
  • Class

• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  

  Walter Lord
  • She
  • Birthday
  • Lit

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Education

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• Si pudiera dejar todo como está, sin mover ni una estrella, ni una nube. ¡Ah, si pudiera!

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Important
  • Why
  • Road

• To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Failing

• Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Change
  • Prayer