John Flavel Quotes

Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.

John Flavel

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Always

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Night
  • Man
  • Stars

• A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Game
  • Car
  • Sports

• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Easy
  • Cost
  • Finance

• You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reading

• I cannot live anywhere else except India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Live
  • India
  • Else

• On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Food

• Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • Work
  • Living
  • Cultures

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Television
  • Industry
  • Sphere

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Cold

• I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Good
  • Help
  • Musician

• O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.

  

  Prince
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Sweet

• You definitely need to have red lipstick no matter what. You can have a great outfit, but it will always give you that extra little pop. I also love perfume. It doesn't even matter what the perfume is. I like to smell sweet.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Great
  • Red
  • Sweet

• Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.

  

  John Flavel
  • Sweet
  • Bitter