Calvin Miller Quotes

Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

Calvin Miller

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• I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Person

• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Same

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Movie
  • Problem
  • Week

• I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.

  

  Larry King
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Week

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Humanity
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance

• 'Yes,' I answered you last night;'No,' this morning, Sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelight,Will not look the same by day.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Night
  • Morning

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Justice

• Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Morning

• My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Morning

• When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Control
  • Dad
  • Morning

• I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Tired

• I'm not a morning person.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Morning

• I like a good cleanse in the morning, and I use 'Cetaphil', which is cheap but really works.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Good
  • Morning

• When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Trying
  • Morning

• My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Morning

• Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Prayer
  • Grace
  • Dark Place

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • May
  • Want
  • Evil

• I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Mom

• The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Wanted
  • Discovered
  • Classical

• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Morning
  • Humanity
  • Week