John Calvin Quotes

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nature

• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Soul

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Irritating

• Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Popular

• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Me
  • Sports
  • Air

• Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Better
  • White
  • Stereotypes

• I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Discipline

• My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Long
  • Home
  • Same

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Friend

• I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Rest

• There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Borders
  • Flags
  • Passport

• It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Women
  • Country
  • Giving

• Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • United States
  • Senate
  • Recognizing

• Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • Things
  • Better
  • Television

• Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

  

  John Calvin
  • Things
  • Temporal