John Calvin Quotes

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Me

• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Success

• My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Everything

• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • High
  • Respect

• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Serious
  • Issues
  • Diabetic

• My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Teachers
  • Both

• A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Think
  • Run

• I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Me
  • Things

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • Wife
  • Purpose

• There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War

• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Permanent
  • Invented

• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

  

  George Matthew Adams
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Chicken
  • Technically
  • Tractor

• You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • God
  • Love

• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Man
  • Harmony